Course Description:
Personal and professional skills (PPS) is a course designed to help reinforce skills students need in college, the workplace, and beyond. The course focuses on five central themes:
- Personal Development
- Intercultural Understanding
- Effective Communication
- Thinking Processes
- Applied Ethics
The PPS course will also integrate the Reflective Project (RP), Service Learning (SL), and Language Development (LD), essentially making it a class that focuses on the CP Core. Because PPS integrates all of the CP Core, it will meet every day for 90 minutes. During this time, students will work on the CP Core, but it also gives the PPS teacher time to check-in with each student and help them manage their workload and check up on progress in their classes.
While the themes are outlined by unit, they are not taught in isolation. The themes are truly integrated throughout the course and will woven into various topics in the different units.
Each PPS class will be dedicated to a career pathway: engineering or biomedical. The PPS class, and subsequently the CP Core, will be tailored to the specific career pathway, so students can use their skills in an authentic setting.
Students will complete a portfolio that demonstrates they have met the learning outcomes for the course.
Please view this PDF for more information about PPS.
Course Outline:
Junior Year:
Unit One:
- Myself, My Vision(board)--An Exploration of Self and Desire
- Theme: Personal Development
Unit Two:
- Ethics Lab--Discovering It, Experimenting It, and Analyzing It
- Applied Ethics
Unit Three:
- Working Together
- Intercultural Understanding
Senior Year:
Unit Four:
Unit Five: