This course focuses on gaining a clear
understanding of career-life development knowledge, skills, and
strategies for life’s journey into adulthood, and includes:
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exploring career-life possibilities for adult life, such as roles, opportunities, and community resources
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examining ways to publicly represent ourselves both face-to-face and in digital environments
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practising inclusive and respectful interactions for various community and work-related contexts
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connecting and engaging with supportive community members
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researching post-graduation options and planning resources, such
as labour market trends, budgeting tools, and workplace safety
guidelines.
CAREER LIFE CONNECTIONS 12
This course focuses on applying personal
career-life management knowledge, skills, and strategies to the one’s
own personal life journey, and includes:
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deepening career-life concepts and thoughtful self-knowledge to
inform personal life-long learning choices and post-graduation plans
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using self-advocacy and employment marketing strategies, such as creating one’s own effective public profiles
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employing developed social capital, such as leadership and collaboration skills, to cultivate community networks
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engaging in a substantive experiential learning opportunity of 30
hours or more that is intended to expand and/or deepen student exposure
to career-life possibilities, such as service learning, volunteerism,
employment, fieldwork projects, entrepreneurship, and passion projects
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designing, assembling, and presenting a capstone to an audience,
celebrating the learning journey and next steps toward preferred
futures.