CLP 102 Making Any Major Marketable
Rollins College
Career and Life Planning
Face-to-Face
16 weeks
About the Course
Welcome to Making Any Major Marketable. Don’t know exactly what you are going to do with your major/minor after graduation? Unsure how to talk about your curricular and co-curricular activities in professional settings? This course is team-taught by the Center for Career and Life Planning and college faculty and will help you design your life, develop professionally, and market your personal brand. Topics include design thinking, résumés, cover letters, professional branding, networking, and interviewing. This course counts as a two-credit, credit/no-credit, general elective and towards the graduation hour requirement. The goal of this course is to provide you with the resources, tools, and skill sets necessary to design the life you want by using the design thinking framework. This class is held in the KWR Social Impact Hub, which includes the Design Lab, a space where individuals come together to engage in innovation and the design thinking process. Many liberal arts students worry that their degrees are not marketable and that their skill sets are not transferrable to the global workforce. Recent Rollins graduates have gone on to open award-winning restaurants, join prestigious public relations and marketing agencies, work for hospitals, fashion design firms, and investment banks. This course’s guiding principle is to help you identify your strengths, formulate a plan to grow and develop during your time at Rollins, and introduce you to a variety of resources that will help you to market yourself in professional and effective ways.
Learning Objectives
By the end of this course, students will be able to:
Examine the relationship between your liberal arts major and your future career
Develop job search, networking, and professional etiquette skills
Identify internship opportunities and career paths across industries
Demonstrate effective interview strategies and techniques
Apply research-based career development theories to your professional journey at Rollins College
Produce marketing artifacts such as a resume, cover letter, and LinkedIn profile
Use design-thinking and reflection for self-exploration
Course Dates
January 2023- March 2023
Semester, Year, Course Sections
Spring 2023