Career Development Throughout the Life Span
Surveys foundational and emerging career development theories and interventions across the lifespan, applying scholarship to personal life within a changing socioeconomic context.
Summary
Recent recorded grades — Fall 2008: 3.65 GPA, 92.3% A/AB (n=13 letter grades); Fall 2010: 3.73 GPA, 90.9% A/AB (n=22 letter grades); Spring 2020: 3.93 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=7 letter grades).
What you’ll be able to do
Gain an understanding of your personality, interests, skills, values, and how these relate to occupational options and career development
Apply career development theory by taking career assessments and gathering occupational information through available resources and informational interviewing
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
Become oriented to the socioeconomic world of work as it impacts individual and family career systems
Demonstrate skill in recognizing, understanding, and articulating cultural and contextual factors that shape career development and impact career interventions
Develop a base knowledge of career-related intervention models and strategies
Develop lifelong skills associated with career decision making and career management
Source: UW Guide
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Prerequisites
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Student experience
the class
Recent recorded grades — Fall 2008: 3.65 GPA, 92.3% A/AB (n=13 letter grades); Fall 2010: 3.73 GPA, 90.9% A/AB (n=22 letter grades); Spring 2020: 3.93 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=7 letter grades).
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Topics
- Foundational and emerging career development theories and interventions
- Application of career development scholarship to personal life within a changing socioeconomic context
- Reflection on personal development including personality, identity, culture, interests, skills, needs, and values for career exploration and planning
Skills
- Applying career development theory using career assessments, occupational information, and informational interviewing
- Recognizing, understanding, and articulating cultural and contextual factors that shape career development and impact interventions
- Developing lifelong skills for career decision making and career management
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