Academic Team:

Leslie McLees (lmclees@uoregon.edu)
FIG Seminar Instructor

Lucy
FIG Assistant

 Meet your FIG Instructor and Assistant

Course in the FIG:

UGST 109 FIG Seminar

 TIME | BUILDING | CRN | 1 Credit

What is it about a college degree that prepares you for a career? Are you worried that the major you really want doesn’t have job prospects? How can we make sense of the many requirements for a university degree and how they help prepare students for lifelong success?
This seminar will introduce you to several strategies to approach your college coursework with an eye on your long-term goals (whether defined or still vague!). You will be able to use and build upon strategies so that by the time you are ready to graduate, you will have a strong grasp on who you are, what you want to do, and how you can achieve it. This is a lifelong approach: most graduates today will change careers (not jobs, but careers) 7 or 8 times. The tools you will develop in this seminar will assist you as you navigate not only college, but a complex economy and rapidly evolving job market.
Through plenty of discussion and fun activities, this seminar will explore the strengths that each individual brings how you can strategically identify and develop build those strengths throughout college. We will practice tangible strategies to develop career-ready skills, such as communication, leadership, and problem-solving, in every class throughout your college experience. This will help you approach every class, even in those classes you are only taking ‘because you have to,’ with an eye towards your future success. we will also integrate your non-classroom activities so that when this seminar ends, you have options to develop interests and skills through curricular and non-curricular activities.
The goal of this seminar is that you develop strategies for short and long-term skill and interest development that prepares you for a fulfilling life and career after graduation. The strategies and approaches can help guide you in the classes you choose, how you approach assignments, the extra-curricular activities you seek out and more!