Career Strategies: Internship and Job Mapping

Catalog description

This course equips students with the tools necessary to identify potential internships and helps them develop the requisite skills and documents required for internships. This course is designed to promote self-reflection, assist students in developing a strategy to gain professional experience, and facilitate the creation of a professional portfolio, including formal employment documents and a professional development plan in order to apply for internships in their field of interest during the following semester. Students develop short and long term career goals. Topics include internship searching resources, how to prepare an effective set of application documents for an internship, and how to prepare to be a professional team member.