+LEVERAGING YOUR EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING

Catalog description

Guides students in leveraging their experiential learning activity (ELA), and prior coursework, to lift up their career development. Focuses on peer-to-peer written and oral communication, peer mentoring, and implementation of career development tools that are directed towards several goals: mapping job, graduate school, and career opportunities, reflecting on one's ELA and coursework, matching one's skills and motivations to opportunities, networking, and building a resume, curriculum vitae, and cover letter template, and developing effective communication skills. Emphasizes discipline-specific literacy and preparation for plant biology-related careers.