HONOR 102 - Career Development for Honors

Number of Credits: 1
Review interests, skills, values, and capabilities, and match those with potential careers. Create goals and focus on how to make effective decisions. This course is only for students participating in the Pappalardo Honors Program. Additional $250 fee required. (All Terms) One hour lecture each week. One Credit. One billable hour.

Pre-requisite(s): HONOR-101
Course Topics:
Career Development for Honors involves self-assessment activities, looking at students’ interests, skills, values, and capabilities and learning how to match those up with potential careers.
Course Objectives: Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

Describe your interests, values & skills (PG 2,3,4,6)
Identify what it might take to experience personal satisfaction in a career (PG 1,2,4,6)
Assess where you would most like to use your natural talents and develop your skills (PG 1,2,3,4)
Become familiar with primary sources of occupational information and how to use them effectively in career decision making (PG 1,2,6)
Develop short & long term personal goals as reference for guiding your career and learning plans (PG 1,2,4,5)
Develop plans for achieving career objectives, including selection of major and transfer planning (PG 1,2,4,5,6)