SLS 1301 - Career and Life Planning

College of Social and Behavioral Sciences

Credit(s): 1-3
Contact Hours: 16-47
Effective Term Fall 2024 (640)

Course Description

This course assists students in identifying aptitudes, interests, and values as related to career decision-making and is individualized to personal lifestyles. Employment and future trends in careers will be explored.

Learning Outcomes and Objectives

  1. The student will explore the process of career and life planning by:
    1. summarizing the benefits of the career and life planning process.
    2. discussing the motivations for attending college and what it means to be college-career ready.
    3. examining career options that are available for a variety of academic disciplines and majors.
    4. identifying their interests, values, and feelings related to their career and educational goals.
    5. constructing an educational plan to achieve an associate’s degree/certificate/postsecondary adult vocational program/short-term training career path and/or transfer goal.
    6. identifying transfer plans to a bachelor’s degree at SPC or an external college/university OR possible articulation pathways into continued educational options.
  2. The student will examine the importance of evaluating interests, abilities, values, and lifestyle in relation to career choice by:
    1. determining the relationship among vocational/education interests, abilities, values, personality and life-style to career selection through texts, worksheets, and questionnaires.
  3. The student will utilize the career resources available through Career Development Services by:
    1. discussing career information.
    2. determining possible career choices to gain more knowledge for making effective career decisions.
  4. The student will analyze the current job market and systematic approaches to finding a job by:
    1. identifying career center and library sources to identify current local, state and national job market data.
    2. determining the relationship between educational pathway, career choice and job market data.
    3. outlining a systematic approach to finding a job including resume writing and job interview.
  5. The student will demonstrate effective classroom management skills by:
    1. explaining how technology skills relate to critical/creative skills.
    2. exploring challenges in college-readiness skills and practicing effective steps to manage them.
    3. discovering and using information appropriately in creating new knowledge and practicing life-long learning.
    4. applying effective test-taking and note-taking strategies.

Criteria Performance Standard

Upon successful completion of the course the student will, with a minimum of 70% accuracy, demonstrate mastery of each of the above stated objectives through classroom measures developed by individual course instructors.

History of Changes

Revised 7/84 Revised 11/84 Revised 7/85 Revised 3/6/91 3 YR C&I Review 1992-93 DBT 5/18/93 Effective Session 19931 3 Yr. C&I Review 1995-96 3 Year Review 96-97 3 Year Review 2000.reformatted.s 3 Year Review 2003 effective 20041. 3 Year Review 2007.
C&I Approval: 02/17/2024, BOT Approval: 03/19/2024, Effective Term: Fall 2024 (640)