Introduction to Career Planning - ED164 Winter Quarter 2007, Exams of History of Education

Download Introduction to Career Planning - ED164 Winter Quarter 2007 and more Exams History of Education in PDF only on Docsity! 1 Education 164 – Introduction to Career Planning Winter Quarter 2007, Tuesday and Thursday – 12:30 – 1:45; Phelps 3505 Career Services Website – www.career.ucsb.edu “This course is about teaching students to clarify what they want and need in an ideal career, helping them make positive declarative statements about what they want from the world of work and what they intend to do to make that happen.” Instructor: Lily Maestas (mess-tus) Counseling & Career Services, Room 1202, [email protected] Office Hour, Thursday 4-5pm Phone # 893- 4412 TA’s: Saul Alamilla [email protected] Kholoud Elayyan [email protected] Rene Staskal [email protected] ________________________________________________________________________________ Text for class: 1. Get Clear on Your Career by Cooper, Maestas & Snyder 2. The Complete Job Search Handbook by Howard Figler 3. Unlimited Options - Reader purchased in class Recommended Reading: Quarterlife Crisis: The Unique Challenges of Life in Your Twenties by Robbins & Wilner Dates to remember: Feb. 13 - Papers due in class Feb. 27 – Informational Interview papers due to TA’s Mar. 8 – Workbooks due to TAs in Discussion Mar. 13 – Review for final Mar. 15 – Final in class How Grades will be assigned: Major Assignment – 20% Final Exam – 40% Workbook & Homework – 20% Discussion – 20% ________________________________________________________________________________ Major Assignment – Write a 7-page reflection paper typed, double-spaced and error free identifying your earliest memories of work as part of what adults did. What attitudes about work did you observe from the adults around you as a child? What do your parents do for a living and how do they feel about their working lives? What did they want to be when they grew up? Did they do it? Why not? If they could do anything what would it be? Why aren’t they doing it? How did their working interfere with what you had in mind as a child? Identify other key career moments in your life. Include people who have influenced you in your thoughts about work. These influences can be either positive or negative. Include some of your own working experiences as well as your feelings and observations about the people, responsibilities and work environments you were in. This paper is designed to help draw out from your life experiences where some of your attitudes about work come from and how they influence the choices you make now and in the future. Take this assignment quite seriously as I will consider it a major influence in grading. I want there to be evidence of 2 reflection, analysis and interpretation of experiences throughout your life not simply a stroll through your life so far. This will involve talking to your parents about their working lives and using the material and concepts covered in lecture and class readings to describe events from a career perspective. Due Feb.13 to Professor Maestas. Information Interviews Reflection Paper - You will conduct two information interviews with two different individuals who work in career fields that interest you. To prepare for the interviews, read about the industry, organization, and even the individual if possible. You will be able to ask more informed questions and can often find information online or in the Career Resource room. It is best to arrange a mutually convenient time (about 30 minutes) to speak with each individual in person or on the phone. Information on how to conduct and Informational Interview and suggested questions to ask can be found on page 10 and 11 of the UCSB Career Manual. The Manual is available in the Career Resource room of Counseling & Career Services. With your information, write a 2 page reflection paper, typed and double spaced. You can write about what you learned from the interviews and what you think and feel about those jobs and career fields. You can also write about how you felt doing this assignment. Due Feb. 27 to your TAs. ________________________________________________________________________________ Class Schedule and Assignments: It is important that you attend and participate in all class sessions, as you will be tested on the material in the assigned texts as well as the information shared in lecture. Discussions are not optional and roll will be taken at each meeting. Homework and reading assigned in the syllabus will be due to your TA’s the following discussion time. Workbooks with all assignments completed will be collected on Mar. 8 by TAs. Lecture topics and assignments: Jan. 9 – Introduction to class/Review of syllabus/questions from you. Lecture – Change and the Career Planning Process Assignments: A) Go to the Career Services website – www.career.ucsb.edu - and register for GauchoLink. All students in ED164 must be registered to use GauchoLink in order to access material needed for this class. B) Bring $15 to class Thursday, cash or check made out to Prosperity Press for reader. C) Read the Introduction and Part I of The Complete Job Search Handbook (pp. 1-86) Jan. 11 – Lecture - The Professional Self Model Assignments: A) Pick up this weeks issue of Time or Newsweek and read it from cover to cover. Bring the magazine to class next session. Does the magazine provide information that is similar to the categories in Part 2 of the PSM – Researching the Job Market? Be prepared to discuss. B) Exercises 1-2 and 4-6 in Get Clear on your Career. Jan. 16 - Lecture – Becoming a Good Career Consumer/ Words to Set the Stage for Change Assignments: A) Use the computers in the Career Resource Room in Career Services and open the CHOICES program on the desktop. Once that is done, complete the Transferable