Subject 'Personal Development and Career Planning'

Year:   2011/2012    2012/2013    2013/2014    2014/2015    2015/2016    

The aim of the course:
The aim of this elective subject is to support student’s personal development through raising self-awareness and increasing self-efficiency by mapping personal career choices and through personal goal-setting, creating a foundation for lifelong learning and entrepreneurial attitudes.

Content and resources:
1. Self-evaluation and self-evaluation tools (written reflection and self-evaluation (SWOT) / personal professional development portfolio, etc.)
2. Personal goal-setting (strategy - vision, mission, goals, action plan, ethical norms or values)
3. The teams a means to achieve established objectives (team goals, aligning personal goals with team objectives, group work vs. teamwork, delegating, roles, rules, etc.)
4. Involvement - achieving common goals through and with people; differences of being a manager and a leader; challenges in team work as opportunities. .
5. Management of self, time and information.
6. Stress and burnout
7. Failure as a foundation to success

Learning outcomes:
- Learner is able to evaluate critically his/her personal strengths and weaknesses, and to see them as opportunities to advance her/his career path.
- The learner is able to set goals and to understand the importance of their implementation for achieving both personal and team objectives.
- The learner is able to evaluate his/her alternatives as an entrepreneur and / or as an employee, and values teamwork as an important means of promoting individual career.

Experiential learning (is a form of active learning, which allows reaching conclusions and theories through experiencing real-life situations similar to professional lives, and through their subsequent analysis).

Students must be prepared for active participation during the tutorials as well as during the team-work, and also be prepared to take the responsibility for their own learning. This means that the learning form experienced is not traditional lecturing and test evaluation, but new knowledge is constructed in collaboration with other students and therefore assessed formatively, requiring everyone’s contribution to learning activities.

(2 EAP=52 hours, 15 contact hours (3 x 5), 37 hours of independent work)

Assessment:
Personal development portfolio, active participation, self- and peer-evaluation, feedback

Personal development, teamwork and career planning

2014: AT*  KT*  

2013: AT*  KT*  

2012: AT*  ET*  GI*  KT*  TI*  

2011: GI*  

* Optional subject