UNIV301 Careers in Psychology

This course addresses the current landscape for careers for psychology majors. Expertise in how to understand and deal with human behavior is an invaluable core competence that employers seek and value and it is linked to success in most, if not all career fields. Students build a personal learning and career plan. Students assess what they have learned so far, in school and life experience, scan the landscape of current employment opportunities and continue to learn about what characteristics define successful players in today’s world of work. Tools include self-assessments and inventories of strengths, informational interviews with practitioners, human resource speakers who can provide guidance on what employers seek and ongoing work on a career/psychology learning journal.

Prerequisite

None

Corequisite

None

Credits

4

Distribution

Psychology

Notes

Available online only.