KRLS 290 - Introduction to In Field Learning: Career Explorations

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Faculty of Kinesiology, Sport, and Recreation

In this course, students will explore the breadth of career paths and scope of practice that can be pursued with their degrees. Strategies for conducting job searches, application and resume writing skills, interviewing and networking skills, and engaging stakeholders will also be addressed. Throughout the course, students will be tasked with creating a professional portfolio to be built upon and utilized as they progress through their remaining program, in field learning courses, and as they enter into their careers. Through multiple micro career explorations and informational interviewing with established practicing professionals students will be connected with throughout the course (e.g., alumni, practitioners in professions of interest), students will discover and uncover how professionals use degree knowledge to build careers. Through these micro career experiences (variable; ~1 -4 hrs/ week or ~15 -60 hrs/term), students will be guided in learning how to identify and articulate transferable skills from all of their own experiences, including from their academic program, that can then be utilized in their future career journey. Notes: Classroom/tutorial sessions are variable per week in addition to the micro career explorations and in field learning experiences with working professionals students will engage with throughout the course. Prerequisite: Successful completion of 45 course units.

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