2024-2025 Pierce College Catalog 
    
    Oct 08, 2024  
2024-2025 Pierce College Catalog
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MNGT 186 Professional Development (3 credits)



Course Description
Develop practical skills and techniques for the world of professional employment. Students will learn strategies to increase workplace effectiveness.

Course Content
A. Personal and Professional Development Strategies
B. Resume Writing / Job Application Process Professionalism
C. Life and Career Plan Processes
D. Networking Interviewing Skills

Student Outcomes
1. Analyze application products to effectively tailor the knowledge, skills, and abilities needed for meaningful and gainful employment.

2. Develop methods to strategically expand professional networks and evaluate each for potential impact on desired career path.

3. Formulate professional action plans that outline steps needed to achieve education plans, career goals, and professional aspirations.

Degree Outcomes
Program Outcome: Strategic Thinking. Use quantitative and qualitative business principles to analyze, synthesize, and evaluate business problems in order to design and execute effective and ethical business solutions. Global Citizenship: Graduates will be able to critically examine the relationship between self, community, and/or environments, and to evaluate and articulate potential impacts of choices, actions, and contributions for the creation of sustainable and equitable systems.

Lecture Contact Hours 30
Lab Contact Hours 0
Clinical Contact Hours 0
Total Contact Hours 30

Potential Methods
Portfolio
Self-evaluation
Oral presentation
Peer-evaluation
Simulation or role play
Instructor observation 
Tests/quizzes
Written assignments



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