'Second-Year Experience' Course Offers Real-World Career and Personal Skills

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Figure out who you want to be as you figure out what you want to do — that's the mission of a popular career and personal development course in the Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences.

The Second-Year Experience class is designed to teach students professionalism, leadership and money management while exploring career pathways and opportunities.

Lynn Meade, teaching assistant professor in Student Success and communication instructor, will lead the interactive and student-centered course.

"This course is a good fit for any major," Meade said. "My biggest goal is for students to learn about how to leverage their strengths and how to frame failures as learning opportunities."

Meade, who is the recipient of the Fulbright Master Teacher Award and the Imhoff Award for Teaching and Mentoring, encourages sophomore students to explore the course as they plan for the fall semester and reminds students that all majors from all colleges are welcome to enroll.

This course uses design thinking to help students find answers to important questions such as:

• What type of person do I want to be?
• Are there ways that I can change my thinking to improve my happiness?
• How can I get rid of negative patterns of thinking that might be holding me back?
• How can I make changes to improve my study skills?
• How will reframing by struggle help me have failure immunity?
• Are there things that I can do now to advance as a professional?
• What skills do I need to be a good leader?
• How do I engage in small talk and improve my networking skills?

For those interested, the course code is ARSC 2003 and will be offered on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 9:30 to 10:45 a.m.