DISCUSSION: Week (5) articles and assignments
As always, you will meet for your Thursday discussion section synchronous and online using your TA's Zoom room. Find your Zoom room URL from your TA, on your text Discussions board, on our Home page, or on the Zoom Rooms page.
Discuss scholarly articles and hear student speeches
During the first half of discussion, you will discuss the scholarly articles for this week. Each of the two students scheduled to perform speeches on the articles for this week will make their presentations and help lead a discussion on their article. Your TA will likely refer to the reflections you all posted beforehand to your text discussion board. Remember that the deeper understanding of these articles you are able to come to, the more readily you will be able to use them in your essay assignments.
Reflect on recent career assignments
During the second half of discussion, you will reflect on the results from your recent career assignments. In particular, your TA may ask you to think about some of the connections between these different communication and reflection assignments. For example:
- Think about your strengths results. Do the items on your wanderings diagram represent opportunities you've had to discover, develop, and improve those strengths? How about the experiences listed on your resume, or the experiences you cited in your CAR statements? What kinds of choices about courses, student activities, volunteer activities, or hobbies could you make in the future to provide more opportunities to better develop the strengths that you've identified? Did you identify any new strengths that you've previously thought of as "weaknesses"? If so, how can you change the story that your resume tells in order to recast those as strengths?
- Think about your CAR statements. Imagine someone asking you about each one -- how would you develop those brief statements into a longer story in an interview setting? Your TA may pair you up in person -- or create little paired breakout sessions online -- to have you go through an exercise where your partner reads out one of the CAR statements as an interview question, and you answer it with a brief story. For example, "Tell me about a time when you ... demonstrated that you can work effectively in a group setting". Going through a "mock interview" with these CAR statements can help you reflect more deeply about how you want to describe your challenges and successes, and how you would link those back to a resume or cover letter.