OBJECTIVES
The course has three salient student-learning objectives:
1. Self-representation: Each student should increase
her/his ability to state her/his core knowledge (“What it means to be a
geographer focusing on…”), skills (specific tasks that the student is able
to undertake), and broad capabilities (such as team work, division of labor,
problem identification (in what realms)).
2. Self-assessment: Each student should increase
his/her ability to assess his/her level of mastery of core knowledge, skills,
and capabilities, should be able to point to some of the experiences that
led to the current level, and should gain some idea of how to increase
his/her mastery in the future.
3. Professional strategies: Each student should
develop some specific ideas for entering or advancing within a professional
field; and should be able to relate her/his self-representation and
self-assessment to some key requirements of the field.
OPPORTUNITIES
To assist participants' ability to attain these objectives, the instructor
will arrange:
REQUIREMENTS
The key course requirements are
Assignments are due no later than 5:00 p.m. on the due date. Late assignments will be accepted, but with a 20 percent penalty. |
Total scores (on a scale of 0 - 100) will translate into final grades (on a scale of 0.0 - 4.0) approximately according to the scale below: the instructor may be more lenient than this.
TOTAL POINTS (OF 100) |
FINAL GRADE
|
90 - 100 points |
3.6 - 4.0
|
70 - 89 points |
2.5 - 3.5
|
60 - 69 points |
1.5 - 2.4
|
46 - 59 points |
0.7 - 1.4
|
0 - 45 points |
0.0
|
SCHEDULE (assigned
reading and synopses should be completed before the class meets)
Tuesday 29 March
Introductions and overview
What
do recent UW graduates value about their education?
Tuesday 5 April
Read Bolles: Chapter 8
Tuesday 12 April
Portfolios
(for learning, for presentation, for professional development)
Read the above link, and a short piece on learning portfolios
(to be circulated)
Tuesday 19 April
Learning
objectives and outcomes
What
your Geography professors wanted you to learn
Read the above links, and write a 500-word learning statement:
given what we wanted you to learn, what have you learned?
How (in what contexts) did you learn those things?
Tuesday 26 April
Search
strategies
Read Bolles: Chapter 4, then Chapter 3, then pages 170-171,
177-181, and 226-227
Write a 500-word search and career strategy, reflecting what
you've learned by reading Bolles
Tuesday 3 May
Career strategies
Read Granovetter (Intro, Ch. 1-2, 5-6, Appendix A)
Write responses to these questions
on the reading
Tuesday 10 May
Career panel
Prepare and turn in a one-page resume, making use of ideas and
resources in Bolles pages 19-22 and 53-55
Tuesday 17 May
Career panel
Bring in an outline of your portfolio: what capabilities
will you highlight, using what manifestations?
Tuesday 24 May
Graduate student panel
Turn in a revised resume
Tuesday 31 May
Presentations of Portfolios
Turn in your portfolio (or URL for your portfolio)
Complete the exit
survey and forward automated acknowledgement to me