School
Student Affairs
Division
Counseling
Department
Counseling
Academic Level
Undergraduate
Course Subject
Counseling
Course Number
125
Course Title
Life Work Planning
Credit Hours
3.00
Instructor Contact Hours Per Semester
47.00 (for 15-week classes)
Student Contact Hours Per Semester
47.00 (for 15-week classes)
Grading Method
A-E
Catalog Course Description
Examines and analyzes one’s own resources, strengths and constraints to determine what is realistic for future change. Covers decision-making tools which can be utilized for effective planning resulting in alignment between one’s life and work goals. Potential challenges are examined through problem-solving techniques.
Goals, Topics, and Objectives
Core Course Topics
- Self analysis.
- Take a series of assessments that measure one's interests, values, experiences, abilities and personality.
- Produce a list of possible careers.
- Create a life work profile based on the assessments.
- Discovering the world of work.
- Identify careers from the World of Work Map that match one's life work profile.
- Enhancements to one's life work journey.
- Identify factors that can make one's life work journey go smoothly.
- Barriers to one's life work journey.
- Identify factors that have the potential to make one's life work journey difficult.
- How to make decisions to improve one's life work journey.
- Identify how one makes decisions based upon models of decision making.
- Experience decision making exercise that test one's decision making capabilities.
- Identify one major decision within the life arena or work arena that needs to be addressed.
- How to develop a life work plan and report on it.
- Create a personal plan to operationalize the decisions one is willing to make to improve in either the life or work arena.
Assessment and Requirements
Assessment of Academic Achievement
Assessment of student learning may include, but not be limited to, writing assignments, critical analysis reports, career inventories, interviews, oral reports and developing a comprehensive life plan.
Outcomes
Satisfies Wellness Requirement
Yes
Approval Dates
Effective Term
Fall 2019
Review Semester
Fall 2019