EXLN

This class provides the opportunity for students to reflect upon themselves and apply this knowledge to career options as well as take active steps toward a future career choice. Designed for individuals who are refining and focusing on career options and ready to take action. An emphasis is placed on career research and developing a professional presence on paper, online, and in-person. Topics include using multiple methods of career research and professional skills that include resume writing, building online profiles, networking, interviewing and salary negotiation.

The central objective of this course is to provide students with an academic-oriented framework that informs, supports and complements their internship learning experience. There is a strong tradition that field experience - in the broadest sense of the term - can be an important step in a college education.

Students who have completed an approved experiential learning activity may enroll in the Experiential Learning Seminar. In this course, students engage in a series of reflective conversations aimed to create space where they can articulate and refine their narratives surrounding an experiential learning activity, while learning from each other. This course offers continued career preparation, professional development advice, and support for students who are applying for their next internship, job, volunteer, or leadership experience.

This course offers an intentional learning structure and cohort model for students who are engaging in independent summer research. Students who take this course meet regularly throughout the term to share about and reflect on their experience. Students are supported individually by a faculty mentor, in a small cohort with a similar disciplinary focus or project structure, and by engaging with the larger, interdisciplinary community.

This course offers an intentional learning structure and cohort model for students who are studying abroad or off campus on a Puget Sound approved program. The purpose of this course is to encourage reflection among students studying abroad/off-campus and to create a shared sense of community based on a common set of reflective questions and practices.

This course provides students with an academic-oriented learning structure that informs, supports, and complements their internship. Students in this course will engage in learning in an off-campus work-related organizational setting, extend knowledge acquired elsewhere in the curriculum, learn how to create observational field notes that lead to an academic analysis of an organizational experience, and reflect upon their experience within an academic cohort-based learning context.

This course offers an intentional learning structure and cohort model for students who are engaging in community-based learning. This course integrates meaningful, community engagement with reflection and reciprocal learning. Students who are a part of the CBL Experience will have the opportunity to explore their strengths and values through the context of engagement in the local community and will explore topics related to citizenship, service, and philanthropy.

The Makerspace is an informal setting in the Collins Memorial Library that allows Puget Sound students, faculty, and staff the opportunity to make, create, collaborate, learn, and share. Makerspaces are defined by the makers who use them, but typically they provide the tools and space for individuals to explore, design, create, and modify physical objects in the name of art, research, or creativity.

This course aims to prepare students to apply for and engage in career-related experiences through the lens of reflective learning. Students are introduced to tools and pedagogy that will support goal setting and readiness for taking their next step along their career journey. Students participate in a series of personal reflective analyses to uncover their strengths and define their interests in order to have a meaningful career preparatory experience. Students gain individualized support through the process of finding an experiential learning opportunity that is right for them.

Using a liberal arts education as a foundation, this class provides opportunity for intentional self-assessment and reflection. A career is not a destination, but rather a developmental process. In this class, students use active reflection to build awareness of different career paths and working environments as well as explore options that align best with their values, interests, and personality. The class helps students enhance their communication skills and increase their confidence while building connections, crafting a resume, and doing informational interviewing.