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Delivery Mode: Individualized study online
Credits: 3
Area of Study: Social Science
Prerequisite: None. However, experiential learning, including career-related experience, volunteer experience, and academic history is important.
Faculty: Faculty of Humanities & Social Sciences
PSYC 305 is not available for challenge.
Psychology 305: The Career Development Portfolio explores the substance and process of career eportfolio development. It is designed for human service professionals, such as career counsellors, who may wish to use this knowledge and strategy with their clients. Students will learn how to facilitate an adult client’s review of his or her experiential learning to help the client create a tool kit of ways and means by which he or she might identify personal purpose and career direction; or seek employment, job advancement, or further education.
The course consists of the following seven units.
Unit 1: The Career Development ePortfolio
Unit 2: The Career ePortfolio Framework
Unit 3: Career Development Theory and Change
Unit 4: Journey of Self Discovery
Unit 5: Creating an Eportfolio
Unit 6: Working with Individual Clients
Unit 7: ePortfolio Presentation
To receive credit PSYC 305, you must complete both quizzes and all three assignments. You must achieve a course composite grade of “D” (50 percent). The evaluation activities are summarized as follows:
| Quiz 1 | Quiz 2 | Assign. 1 | Assign. 2 | Assign. 3 | Assign. 4 | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10% | 10% | 20% | 10% | 10% | 40% | 100% |
To learn more about assignments and examinations, please refer to Athabasca University's online Calendar.
All materials for this course are supplied online via the course website.
Athabasca University reserves the right to amend course outlines occasionally and without notice. Courses offered by other delivery methods may vary from their individualized-study counterparts.
Opened in Revision 1, September 15, 2010.
