Personal and Professional Development
Overview
The following global ideas guide the design and delivery of this course:
- Personal development is an essential component of preparing oneself for the human services field
- Wellness is a holistic concept that encompasses the body, mind and spirit of the individual
- Self-awareness is an important component of personal and professional development
- Working with others in groups is an essential part of the human service profession.
- Wellness includes an understanding of stress and how to deal with it
- Lecture
- Group work
- Experiential classroom activities
- Student presentations
- Guest speakers
- Audio-visual presentations
This course will conform to Douglas College policy regarding the number and weighting of evaluations. This is a Mastery/Non-Mastery course.
- Reflective Writing
- Group Presentation
- Participation
- Other
Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- Demonstrate ability to care for self in the domains of physical, emotional, social, intellectual and spiritual wellness
- Research the domains of wellness
- Assess own wellness experience using a variety of instruments
- Demonstrate beginning reflective writing skills
- Develop understanding of relationship between reflective writing and self awareness
- Develop understanding of basic stress management techniques
- Assess own style of managing stress
- Research theories of stress management
- Incorporate stress management into own life
- Demonstrate basic self-awareness
- Reflect on and write about personal development
- Reflect on and write about basic interpersonal skills
- Develop beginning work group skills.
- Practice basic listening and communication skills
- Practice beginning group process skills such as group structure, communication, listening, providing feedback, problem-solving, assertiveness and facilitation.
TBA
Requisites
Prerequisites
No prerequisite courses.
Corequisites
No corequisite courses.
Equivalencies
No equivalent courses.
Course Guidelines
Course Guidelines for previous years are viewable by selecting the version desired. If you took this course and do not see a listing for the starting semester / year of the course, consider the previous version as the applicable version.
Course Transfers to Other Institutions
Below are current transfer agreements from Douglas College to other institutions for the current course guidelines only. For a full list of transfer details and archived courses, please see the BC Transfer Guide.
| Institution | Transfer details for CFCS 1121 |
|---|---|
| Simon Fraser University (SFU) | No credit |
| University of British Columbia - Okanagan (UBCO) | No credit |
| University of British Columbia - Vancouver (UBCV) | No credit |
| University of Northern BC (UNBC) | No credit |
| University of Victoria (UVIC) | No credit |