What are professionals in your field expected to know? It’s useful to explore and understand professional expectations more specifically if you intend to use your degree to enter or advance in a particular profession. These learning activities bring you to both the general and specific types of investigation.
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Thinking Points:
By the end of your investigations in this area, you should be able to answer questions such as these:
•What skills and abilities do employers expect of workers who have college degrees?
•What skills, perspectives, and knowledge are professionals in your particular field expected to possess? What college courses can foster these skills?
•What type of degree and background experience are professionals in your field expected to have?
•What are the legal requirements, examinations, or certifications, if any, expected for entry into or advancement in your chosen profession?
•If your profession requires a graduate degree, what studies are expected in the undergraduate degree to prepare for graduate work in the profession? What type of undergraduate degree do you need?
•If you plan to remain in your current workplace, how has your workplace changed in the last five years? How is the field expected to develop in the future?
•What courses seem to offer the most preparation for advancement in the field, given the field’s proposed future direction?
How will this Research Impact your Rationale Essay?
In the Professional Expectations section of your Rationale Essay, you will be asked to to explain what you’ve learned from answering the previous questions under Thinking Points.
•What information did you uncover from your research into professional expectations which you found useful for planning your degree?
•What sources of information did you find most useful, and why?
•What useful skills and knowledge should your have for your profession?
•Are there any courses you might want to add to your degree plan that will help you develop the skills and knowledge you’re expected to have as a professional in your field? Are there ways other than courses to address these expectations of you as a professional, and are there ways to pursue this learning in conjunction with academic work for your degree?
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