The website is:

http://www.uscg.mil/hq/capemay/degreedesc.htm

The assignment is:

Write a paragraph or two about your plans after getting your B.A. or B.S.
Do you plan on getting any other degrees? If so how far do you plan on going with your academic career?

Go to a website and find a job that would apply to you if you were not going to graduate school and only had a BA in psychology. Write a one page summary of what kind of job you would get if you were not going to graduate school.

Go to http://www.ns.msu.edu/acrc/after_graduation/grad_deciding.asp and read the article regarding Graduate School. After reading the article, please write 1-2 pages on whether or not you want to attend grad school, why or why not and what degree you are planning on receiving or what career you are planning on perusing if you do not plan on attending grad school. Be prepared to discuss in class on Thursday (9/15).

I would like you to complete two surveys in preparation for our discussion next week. I will also ask you to look at some other surveys that are optional: I’d like you to skim them and refer to them, but there is no need to fill them out unless you want to. To see details on this assignment, click here.
[for the full list of available materials on happiness, click here.]

Deciding whether or not to go onto graduate school is a decision that many of us will face. Find information about graduate schools. Write about a one page summary discussing the following:

The pros and cons of graduate school from your point of view.
Would you benefit more from graduate school or getting a job?
What type of program would you like to pursue? Full time/ Part time? Taking a year off? Etc.?
Do you have specific concerns about graduate school, finances, getting in, etc?
If graduate school is not for you what are your plans after graduating with a BA?

Bring your written homework to class and be prepared to discuss all of these questions in class (Thursday 09/22)

Some helpful websites to try are:
http://www.princetonreview.com/grad/default.asp
http://info.gradschools.com/

This assignment is to assure that you are making progress on developing your portfolio. Recall that you are supposed to be keeping your personal writings for your portfolio in a single Microsoft Word document with a table of contents. Print out your Table of Contents and any four (not more) pages from your portfolio document. These should be STAPLED TOGETHER and submitted as a single item.

This is an assignment for those who are not going to graduate school and who choose not to attend class 10/6/05. You may replace up to two missed classes with this assignment. Get copies of three newspapers (e.g. Albany paper, Binghamton paper, Oneonta paper, your hometown paper, or an online paper that has classified ads.) Find ads for three jobs you would be interested in. Write or call each employer and ask them to send you (or tell you) information about the job. Draft a nice letter (or set of telephone notes for yourself) requesting a set of appropriate information. For the homework, turn in the draft letter and/or telephone notes to yourself, and the addresses or info on the three jobs. Be prepared to later share with the class what the jobs were and what info you found about the jobs, plus "what else I learned" through this process.

A. Write a one-page report on the first steps you have taken to arrange the shadowing and the interview with people in a job setting you are interested in, as required in the course syllabus.
B. Submit a list of at least five questions you could ask in that interview.
C. Submit a list of at least five questions you can ask our next guest.

Please submit these as three separate pages stapled together. Label them 10/25/05 Homework A, 10/25/05 homework B, and 10/25/05 Homework C.

This is an assignment for each individual student (not groups) to make a contribution that will add to or improve the existing class website on careers. More details will be described in class. Before the class ends, each student will be submitting two such website contributions; these will typically (but not necessarily) be on the topics for the two presentation groups they are in during the semester. In certain cases you may wish to make a website contribution on a different topic; that is acceptable, but I would like you to discuss it with me first.

For Tuesday’s class we will be meeting in the computer lab, Fitz. 306. Please bring the booklet (Your Winning Edge: Resume and Interview Preparation) that the guest speaker from Thursday gave the class; if you missed Thursday’s class Professor vom Saal has some extras outside his door at 502 Fitzelle. The homework assignment for Tuesday is to find at least five jobs that you think you would be interested in and bring them to class on Tuesday.

This is not a standard homework assignment, but I thought I'd put a link here to the notes on conducting the site visit and interview, which also contain the outline of the required report on your shadowing activity and site visit and interview.

Internships can be a valuable experience that can help you earn your degree, help get you into graduate school, or help you get a job. Where would you be interested in obtaining an internship and why? Have you already had any experience with internships? If so, what was that experience like; what did you learn? What steps would you take (where would you look, who would you contact, etc.) in order to get an internship? What concerns you most about internships and what questions do you have about internships in general? Write up one page of brief comments to submit to Dr. vom Saal, and be prepared to discuss this in class on 11/17.