After PLS? Discerning Your Future

(1 Credit Hour) · Undergraduate

PLS draws students with wide-ranging interests who often have multiple strengths. But that very breadth can make it challenging to decided your next steps after graduation. This course draws on materials developed at Stanford to help young adults and mid-career professionals use "design thinking" to clarify, develop, and pursue their goals. While following that process, we will also reflect upon it using texts and questions from the PLS curriculum. Is it in fact possible to "design your life," as the Stanford project promises? What assumptions and expectations are embedded in this approach? How should PLS students (or anyone) discern their future plans? Note: This is a practice-oriented course; you will be expected not just to talk about discernment but to actually pursue it!