Career Exploration and Planning

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Course
CAEP 0201
Discontinued
No
Course code
CAEP 0201
Descriptive
Career Exploration and Planning
Department
Career and Employment Preparation
Faculty
Applied Community Studies
Credits
3.00
Start date
End term
202020
PLAR
No
Semester length
15 weeks
Max class size
12
Contact hours
70 to 90 hours per semester, depending on disabling condition.
Method(s) of instruction
Tutorial
Learning activities
  • instructor presentation
  • class discussions
  • self-awareness exercises
  • standardized and non standardized assessment inventories
  • written assignments
  • tours ,video, films
  • guest speakers
  • research in the Career Resource Centre and Library at Douglas College.
  • research on line
  • role play
  • interviews
Course description
This course is designed to provide adults with a disability with an ongoing supportive environment in which to explore career alternatives. It will include self assessment, job training information and the development of a career plan with short and long term goals.
Course content
  1. Review life experience and learnings.
  2. Interest, temperament, aptitude and skill assessment.
  3. Values clarification.
  4. Barriers to employment.
  5. Occupational information, current labour market information, future predictions.
  6. Non-traditional employment.
  7. Organization of career/job information.
  8. Decision making strategies.
  9. Goal setting.
  10. Field survey of occupational choices and educational plans.
Learning outcomes
  1. To increase self-awareness of personal qualities, skills, aptitudes, abilities, interests and values.
  2. To explore occupational and career alternatives.
  3. To identify intrinsic and extrinsic employment and educational barriers and develop coping strategies.
  4. To make informed, individual occupational choices.
  5. To develop a career plan containing long and short term goals.
Means of assessment

A mastery model of on-going evaluation will be used.  A student will have completed the course when he/she has demonstrated through satisfactory completion of exercises and assignments that the course objectives have been achieved.  Where formal tests are used mastery will be defined as a score of 80% or more.  Progress will be monitored on a regular basis by the instructor in consultation with each student. The student will be expected to maintain regular attendance and progress, actively participate in all classroom activities, and complete assignments as directed.

Textbook materials

None

Prerequisites

CAEP 0100

Corequisites

CAEP 0202, 0203, 0204, 0205