2017 Volume 2017 Issue 27 Pages 259-268
This is the fourth report from the study of building up the new teaching seminar in Career Psychology．Starting from our act on the Faculty Development in 2009, we decided to add a new teaching programme, “Seminar of Career Psychology”, to the curriculum. The research on how we design and structure this seminar has been conducted under the competitive research funds of Otsuma Women’s University since 2012. In this report, we may illustrate the first run of the seminar in detail, which was provided to the junior students in the last half of the school year of 2015.
This fifteen-week seminar consists of three parts: The first part is designed for the students to become aware of their own career development. In the second part, students start to learn some business manners and the whole picture of the business world for preparing to perform as a member of society. In the last part, students are encouraged to plan the interview with the graduates. All findings from the interviews would be shared in the class by giving presentations as a part of the course work.
Throughout the whole programme of 2015, students were provided some opportunities to consider and develop their own career. At the end of the seminar, all students were given home-work assignments to make their own “life-long career plan”. However. these ideas would be shared with all members of the seminar as a booklet.
According to the discussion, it has been clarified that the significance of this seminar was helpful in the way to support the identity formation of the student.
