The course provides opportunities and resources for students to seek career information related to academic and occupational interest patterns, which form the foundation for sound career decision-making. Students are guided through individual and group exercises that assist in identifying needs, values, wants, interests, and abilities. The purpose of the course is to help students develop a strong foundation for major and career decision planning through career inventories, research on careers, and personal reflections.
Framework: This course uses the Pyramid of Information-Processing (Knowing about myself & knowing about my options→Knowing how I make decisions→Thinking about my decision making) and the CASVE Cycle (→Communication→Analysis→ Synthesis→Valuing→Execution→) as a framework for career and major exploration.
- Understand and describe the process of career development.
- Identify and use campus, community, and technology resources to support major and career exploration.
- Identify and apply the steps of decision-making to career and major decisions.
- Integrate the results of self-assessment and career exploration to identify career and educational options.
- Design and implement an action plan that includes educational and career goals.
- Identify personality, interests, values, skills, family, cultural, and financial influences that relate to career and educational decisions.