PFF Participatory Phase (Second Year) Seminars
Fall 2008 Seminars
Overview of Second Year and Self Guided Development
Learning Objectives:
- Understand the course requirements, guidelines and assignments.
- Gain knowledge regarding self-guided professional development.
- Understand what is required to be successful.
Becoming a Member of your Academic Community & Learning to Network
Learning Objectives:
- Understand what it means to become an active member of your academic community (profession/discipline).
- Develop strategies for building and enhancing professionalization and socialization among your academic peers.
- Develop practical methods of networking and establishing collegiality in your field or discipline.
- Understand the value of networking with respect to your career goals.
Mock Interviews
Learning Objectives:
- Gain experience with the academic interview process.
- Develop strategies that will aid you in the interview process.
- Gain experience answering typical interview questions.
- Develop an awareness of what types of behaviors and/or answers are ineffectual in the interview process.
Spring 2008
Perspectives from Other Campuses
Learning Objectives:
- Gain knowledge of the requirements needed to work at this institution and its peer institutions.
- Gain knowledge of the workload with respect to research, teaching, and service that is required at this institution and its peer institutions.
- Gain an understanding of how certain institutional factors affect the hiring process (e.g. size of the university, private vs. state, university mission)
- Gain an understanding of the culture at this institution.
Academic Career Choices - Which one is right for you?
Learning Objectives:
- Gain an understanding about the differences that exist between academic institutions.
- Gain knowledge about how research, teaching and service requirements differ with respect to different types of academic institutions.
- Understand the impact that your choices can make on your career.
- Develop strategies for determining which academic career choice is right for you.
New Media in the Academic Environment
Learning Objectives:
- Understand how new media enhances the classroom.
- Develop and understanding of how new media is shaping higher education.
- Gain tools to find help determining which new media is the most appropriate for you.
