Lecture: 3 hours a week.
- Lectures
- Audiovisual media
- Group activities
- Independent work
- Guest Lectures
- Standardized and non-standardized assessment inventories
- Review life experience and learnings as they relate to personal goals
- Interest inventories, value and skills assessments
- Advocate for workplace and education accommodations
- Research and present career and educational opportunities
- Workplace safety and rights
- Goal setting and career planning using decision making strategies
Upon completion of this course, the successful student wil be able to:
1. Complete various inventories/assessments related to education and employment, and develop and participate in personal, educational, and career planning.
2. Demonstrate familiarity with the BC Human Rights Code, BC Employment Standards Act and federal Employment Equity Act and his/her rights as a worker and citizen in BC.
3. Identify and describe reasonable education/workplace accommodations/adjustments and support.
4. Research job profile and education/training opportunities.
5. Participate in goal planning and/or information interview.
6. Identify and assess personal skills, abilities, work skills, habits, performance and compatibility with the type of work chosen.
Assessment will be in accordance with the Douglas College Evaluation Policy.
An evaluation schedule is presented at the beginning of this course. This is a mastery-graded course.
Typical means of evaluation would include a combination of:
- Final Interview
- Assignments
- Presentations
- Demonstration of skills
- Final Evaluation
Instructors may use a student's record of attendance and/or level of active participation as part of the student's graded performance. Expectations and grade calculations regarding class attendance and participation will be clearly defined in the instructor's course outline/syllabus.
Relevant material will be provided throughout the course.
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