Making the Most of Your UW Experience Seminar: HAS 397D

Fall Quarter 2009

Tuesdays, 3:30-4:50pm, MGH 206

Thursdays, 3:30-4:50pm, MGH 206

Course Description:
This seminar provides a venue for students to explore their strengths, interests, academic and career aspirations, and resources available at UW. At an early stage in your UW experience, you will actively engage in the development of a personal vision for your future. Through interaction with community and campus leaders in various fields, you will craft a mission statement and investigate opportunities to engage in the community and to take control, and full advantage, of your academic career at the UW. You will begin to develop the tools necessary to craft a cohesive, evolving plan of action to guide yourself through the UW and future endeavors, to draw upon when faced with challenging decisions. These tools will be useful for scholarship applications, graduate school and the professional fields. The Autumn quarter course is limited to Freshmen & Sophomores.Honors and non-Honors students are welcome.

Course Objectives:

 

  1. Analyze your strengths, interests, goals;
  2. Explore resources available to expand interests, goals, understandin, community;
  3. Integrate learning acquired through experiencs with coursework and goals;
  4. Develop a mission statement, which will lead to a personal statement;
  5. Develop a map or plan of action flexible enough to guide you through your immediate and distant future;
  6. Develop effective ways to present academic and personal goals to mentors, facult, scholarship committees and graduate schools;
  7. Become more engaged in achieving your goals--take a pro-active role by understanding resources available and how to use them well.

COURSE SYLLABUS

READING (due Oct 6th): William Cronon; "Only Connect..." The Goals of a Liberal Education

HANDOUT (due Oct 8th): Community Engagement Handout

Online Readings

Good Mentoring and Advising Ch 5

What College Leaders Can Do Ch 9

Powerful Connections Ch 2

HANDOUT (due on Oct 22nd): Vision and Values Worksheet 1

HANDOUT (due on Nov 5th): Vision and Values Worksheet 2

You can find Donald Asher's Podcast here (due on Nov 12th): http://www.css.washington.edu/course/CHIDEVENTS

HANDOUT (due on Nov 24th): Vision and Values Worksheet 3

Donald Asher Handouts:

How to grad. school handout; 10 things to ask handout, Grad. school handout, Career launch powerpoint,  Networking handout