99-530: "Preparing for the Future: What Happens Next"
Mini-1, T-Th 6:30-7:50pm
6 units, Pass/Fail
A new University-wide undergraduate course for seniors is being offered during Mini 1 across all disciplines starting Fall 2008. The course will aid in preparing for post-graduation experiences through reflective identification of cornerstones in each student's college experience and the lessons learned from those experiences with an eye toward applying those lessons in the future. Sustained post-graduation preparation including discussion of one's professional and alumni responsibilities will also be a substantive part of the course. Assignments will include readings and weekly journal entries focusing on reflection and the post-graduation preparation process. This pilot session will be a unique experience for students to shape the future of the course through continuous feedback on form and content.
4 comments:
I think this is a great idea. I like how CMU is offering more and more classes that will help prepare you for incidents that are bound to happen, yet do not fall under an specific academic parameters. Its just like the mentality of classes like OSWALD...or wolf's colon(that feels weird to type). Preparation for life is not something that can be found in a book...unless you read Dr. Phil everyday.
I feel the creators of this class expressed the same feelings that our administration possessed when creating the mediskills section in Basic PTM. I feel like that, in and of itself is one of the most important dynamics of our education. We are all in school to someday become professionals; why can't information on professionalism be discussed just like drafting homework? This article truly shows that it can.
Though this sounds like it could help with a lot of graduating seniors, i wonder how much It could apply to Drama as well as other departments. It just sounds like this could be useful for some CS majors but probably not a graduating actor or designer.
I just do not think that this class would be particularly useful to the university as a whole. All occupations are different, and a school that has so many different areas of expertise should offer this school in various ways. I agree in the use of classes like the metaskills in PTM, and I think that if these classes were major-specific, they would be much more helpful. If they are kept general, they probably would be a little too general to really be informative.
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