ESL 88 - College and Career Education Planning and Transitions

3 CR

Education Planning and Transitions course will support students in developing their professional and academic goals. Students will explore their identities and communities, map out their professional, educational, financial, wellness, and social goals and learn about potential pathways for career and college transitions such as: ABE, I-BEST and other college pathways. Completion of this course satisfies the FYS graduation requirement. Grading: BEdA

Prerequisite(s): Department consent is required.

Course Outcomes

Communicate career goals and key strategies for reaching those goals in written paragraphs or verbally.
Survey BC College Pathways with career goals.
Identify and choose steps to achieve personal goals and develop a draft educational plan.
Examine and develop narratives of how family and community expectations, personal strengths, challenges, and social systems affect personal success.
Identify campus resources for academic, social, career, wellness, and financial support and identify how they will be used.
Develop and practice skills to navigate effective cross-cultural interaction, student-instructor interaction, student-community interaction, student-student interaction, and self-advocacy.
Identify skills to interact with instructors, students, campus community, and members of other cultures, and advocate for oneself.
Identify different ways people reflect on their strengths, weaknesses, and growth and how individuals, events, and ideas develop and interact.
Practice reflecting on personal growth in academics, socialization, wellness, finances, and career.

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