Students wishing to apply for course credit through the University of Dallas Office of Personal Career Development have several options:
REGISTRATION DUE BY February 1, 2019 (late registrations may be accepted on case-by-case basis)
Students interning abroad must also complete this form to register.
This internship will be completed to strengthen the students individual experience and apply key classroom learning in a real world occupational setting. The internship experience will elevate a simple work experience as the student reflects and looks for deeper meaning and strives to personally contribute. The student will earn credit based on the students documentation of his/her internship experience, observations, and results informed by their employment experience.
REGISTRATION DUE BY February 1, 2019 (late registrations may be accepted on case-by-case basis)
Community volunteer services will integrate meaningful community service with reflection to enrich the students learning experience, teach civic responsibility, and strengthen communities. The student will earn credit based on combined organization participation and the students documentation of his/her service experience, observations, and results.
This course is only offered in the spring. This course begins the week after Spring Break.
This course will enable the student to develop techniques and strategies for identifying fields of interest, personal branding, and conducting an effective job search. Emphasis is placed on personal discernment and identification of skills, interests, and values. The student will engage in the assessing of marketable skills, researching the market place, building a personal brand and developing a network of contacts, writing resumes, cover letters, and other standard means of correspondence used in the job search process. The student will engage in professional interviewing with the goal of achieving selection as an intern or employee at their chosen organization(s).
"You bring me a letter of acceptance to a Catholic school for your child, and I promise your child will attend Catholic school." This is the promise Father Mark Hamlet, BA '68 MBA '70, makes to his congregation at every Mass. The pastor of Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Austin, Hamlet has spent much of his ministry advocating for Catholic school education through his nonprofit foundation, Our Kids at Heart.
+ Read MoreThis past summer, Yeabkal Wubshit, BA '20, earned the internship that every computer science major dreams of: a position at Google -- and spent the summer working on infrastructures for Google Service Accounts at Google's office in Sunnyvale, California.
+ Read MoreThe University of Dallas will celebrate the extraordinary achievements of four alumni with its 2019 Distinguished Alumni Awards. Award recipients Deacon Harold Burke-Sivers, MTS '00, Laura Felis Quinn, BS '86 MBA '18, Judy Kelly, BA '63, and John Parker, BA '83 MBA '89, will be honored for their contributions to their professions, communities and the University of Dallas.
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