AD1400 Career Exploration/Self Assessment

In this one-credit, Career Exploration/ Self-Assessment course, students will have the opportunity to develop a more in-depth understanding of their interests, values, personality, skills, strengths, and areas of challenge as they explore future career options. They will reflect upon current trends in career development and understand more about who they are, how they process information, how they make decisions, why work is important to them, and what kind of work might be the most natural for them. Students will explore developmental issues associated with personality and career development, and they will be encouraged to consider ways in which they might maximize their strengths and minimize their weaknesses to meet the demands of specific work and/or classroom environments. Interest inventories will be administered to facilitate career exploration, and an instructor qualified to interpret the data will guide students through the process of analyzing the results of these assessments. Panels, field trips, and/or presentations throughout the semester will be used to enhance students’ understanding of the strengths and skills required of employees working in a variety of professions. At the end of the course, students will create their own career development plan. This course is open to students who have completed a semester’s worth of course work at the college level (as transfer students or students enrolled at Landmark College)–or by permission of the instructor. Students who would benefit the most from this course are those who have had the opportunity to try out a number of strategies for managing college level course work and engage in a preliminary assessment of their academic strengths and weaknesses. Students must be able to read (or at least comprehend) at an 8th grade level because the inventories/ assessments used with students require an 8th grade reading comprehension level. Credits: 1

Fees: $35.00