Lecture: 3 hours/week
Lecture (instructor-delivered lessons)
Topics to be explored include:
- Career development
- Knowledge of skills, strengths and interests
- Work-place communication and employability skills
- Problem-solving strategies
- Time management tools and time management strategies
- The interview process
- Workplace safety skills
At the conclusion of the course, a successful student will be able to:
- Identify barriers to communication.
- Use strategies to overcome communication barriers while engaging in effective communication and active listening.
- Employ appropriate conversational skills.
- Demonstrate respectful interactions in a diverse, multi-cultural learning/work environment.
- Demonstrate problem-solving skills.
- Describe safe work practices as per WorkSafe BC guidelines.
- Identify and describe their strengths and limitations and analyze the impact of these on learning and workplace performance.
- Practice self-advocacy skills to effectively seek and implement strategies and solutions that enhance job success.
- Participate in job interview role plays to build confidence and improve interview techniques.
Assessment will be in accordance with the ÌÇÐÄvlog´«Ã½Evaluation Policy. An evaluation schedule is presented at the beginning of the course. This is a mastery graded course. Typical means of evaluation would include a combination of:
- Mid-point and final self-assessments
- Demonstration of skills
- Regular attendance and participation in class activities
Instructors may use a student’s record of attendance and/or level of active participation as part of the student’s graded performance. Expectations and grade calculations regarding class attendance and participation will be clearly defined in the instructor's course outline/syllabus.
Topic-relevant material will be provided throughout the course.
Instructor permission