CAREER DEVELOPMENT THROUGHOUT THE LIFE SPAN
We are all engaged with, and affected by, the world of work. Career development is a lifelong process that includes tasks and decision-making related to: selecting our dream job at age five, planning our major in college, transitioning to a new field, working as career counselors, and planning for retirement. Surveys foundational and emerging career development theories and interventions. A key component includes exploration of how knowledge from career development scholarship can be applied to students' own lives within a changing socioeconomic context. Requires reflection on personal development (e.g., personalities, identities, life experiences, cultures, interests, skills, needs, and values) and apply this self-knowledge to engage career exploration and planning.
Prerequisites & course information
Requisites: Junior standing Course Designation: Core GenEd - Social & Behavioral Science Repeatable for Credit: No Last Taught: Spring 2020 Learning Outcomes: 1. Gain an understanding of your personality, interests, skills, values, and how these relate to occupational options and career development Audience: Undergraduate 2. Apply career development theory by taking career assessments and gathering occupational information through available resources and informational interviewing Audience: Undergraduate 3. Become familiar with key career development theories and constructs that assist us in understanding the development, role, and meaning of work in people’s lives across the lifespan Audience: Undergraduate 4. Become oriented to the socioeconomic world of work as it impacts individual and family career systems Audience: Undergraduate 5. Demonstrate skill in recognizing, understanding, and articulating cultural and contextual factors that shape career development and impact career interventions Audience: Undergraduate 6. Develop a base knowledge of career-related intervention models and strategies Audience: Undergraduate 7. Develop lifelong skills associated with career decision making and career management Audience: Undergraduate Learning Outcomes: 1. Gain an understanding of your personality, interests, skills, values, and how these relate to occupational options and career development Audience: Undergraduate 2. Apply career development theory by taking career assessments and gathering occupational information through available resources and informational interviewing Audience: Undergraduate 3. Become familiar with key career development theories and constructs that assist us in understanding the development, role, and meaning of work in people’s lives across the lifespan Audience: Undergraduate 4. Become oriented to the socioeconomic world of work as it impacts individual and family career systems Audience: Undergraduate 5. Demonstrate skill in recognizing, understanding, and articulating cultural and contextual factors that shape career development and impact career interventions Audience: Undergraduate 6. Develop a base knowledge of career-related intervention models and strategies Audience: Undergraduate 7. Develop lifelong skills associated with career decision making and career management Audience: Undergraduate
Sources
- Course catalogue ↗2026-2027