Students wishing to apply for course credit through the University of Dallas Office of Personal Career Development have several options:
REGISTRATION DUE BY August 31, 2018 (late registrations may be accepted on case-by-case basis)
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 August 31, 2018 (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 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).
"Poetry is civically important for a healthy and happy society," said three-time UD alumnus Matt Mehan, BA '00 MA '09 PhD '14. "In other words, a healthy politics requires a healthy poetics."
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+ Read MoreDuring the course of the 2018-19 academic year, the university will sponsor a series of lectures, art exhibits, panel discussions and other activities centered around All the Light We Cannot See, the first chosen book for this new community reading initiative, culminating in author Anthony Doerr's visit to campus as the 2019 Eugene McDermott lecturer.
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