Other GE Electives

What do you want to be? How can you find a life of value? This one-unit course helps students explore career choices and expand understanding of the relationship between education and the world of work. Career choices include non- or for-profit companies, large and small; non-governmental and intra-governmental organizations; and academia. Students will place emphasis on self-assessment, path making, professional discernment, tackling the job search, issues related to hiring and the workplace, and the graduate school admissions process, depending on interests. Instruction is personalized and dynamic: small group and individual work with instructors are emphasized.

This one-credit course is designed to provide students selected for the Student Orientation Leader (SOL) Program with keys to effective leadership. While the emphasis is on experiential learning, students also examine in an academic context various leadership styles, learning to identify and/or develop their own. The course will emphasize ethical leadership, personal responsibility, and community service. While taking this course, students will be engaged in various on-campus orientation activities, including trust building, goal setting, time management, team building, communication, and group process, that utilize their leadership role as an SOL. The course includes journal writing, readings, and group presentations. This course is not required but is open to students who qualify.