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Launching Into Life After College, Leonard J. Shedletsky, Jeanette Andonian Dr., David Bantz Dr., Dennis Gibson Mfa
Launching Into Life After College, Leonard J. Shedletsky, Jeanette Andonian Dr., David Bantz Dr., Dennis Gibson Mfa
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ABSTRACT This chapter reports on a course that is designed to facilitate the students’ transition out of college and into life after graduation. It describes how the course foregrounds the problems students face, both the technical aspects of the transition and the emotional experience, unthought out ideas about what the students want, their goals, and how they might go about achieving their goals. The authors report on the course culture, assignments, observations from teaching the course, student feedback from focus groups, surveys, behavior, as well as summaries of data on the student’s experience. The need for this course is supported …