{"id":12089,"date":"2021-02-15T13:40:53","date_gmt":"2021-02-15T18:40:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/artsci\/?p=12089"},"modified":"2021-02-15T13:43:24","modified_gmt":"2021-02-15T18:43:24","slug":"workplace-readiness-course","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/artsci\/news\/workplace-readiness-course\/","title":{"rendered":"Workplace Readiness Course"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Our faculty have worked hard to create innovative one-credit courses that are responsive to urgent, timely issues, including COVID-19 and racial justice, or address practical concerns such as career preparation. One such course taught in the fall 2020 semester was <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Workplace Readiness for Social Science Majors, <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">a fully online career readiness workshop designed for social science majors in the College of Arts and Sciences and co-taught by Political Science Department Chair Marc Hutchison and Arts and Sciences Associate Dean Brian Krueger. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The 25 students in the class, who came from all A&amp;S social science majors, created resumes and LinkedIn accounts, wrote elevator pitches, and more. They discussed various workplace and career topics with URI alumni from a wide range of careers during Zoom meetings, many of which became mentoring conversations that continued over email. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cI am so, so glad I took this course because I learned a great deal along the way,\u201d one student said. \u201cIt will definitely benefit and better prepare me for life after college.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>We offer many ways for alumni to stay connected to the College. Learn more <a href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/artsci\/alumni\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Workplace Readiness for Social Science Majors&#8221; is a fully online career readiness workshop designed for social science majors in the College of Arts and Sciences.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1089,"featured_media":2978,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/artsci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12089","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/artsci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/artsci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/artsci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1089"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/artsci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12089"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/artsci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12089\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12092,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/artsci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12089\/revisions\/12092"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/artsci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/artsci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/artsci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/artsci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}