Editing Professional Development Proseminar: Career Choices (Winter 2022) (section)

== Course Overview ==
=== General description of series ===

COM 594 is a series of five professional seminars designed to help students develop a range of professional competencies. Communication Ph.D. students are required to take three of these courses as part of their programs of study, and M.A. students are welcome to enroll. In these proseminars, faculty and other guests share their experiences as teachers, researchers, and public intellectuals. As a faculty, we view this series as an important, thought-provoking, and fun part of your graduate education, and we are excited to incorporate these seminars into our program.

=== Specific course description ===

The career choices proseminar is designed to introduce students to a variety of career paths available to them with a research-based graduate degree in communication.  The course speaks to careers in government, corporations, nonprofit organizations, community colleges, and universities. The proseminar seeks to develop graduate students’ professional skills in managing their job search after graduation so that they can achieve fulfilling careers after graduation.

=== Learning goals ===

I will consider this course a complete success if, at the end of the course, all students in the course can:

* identify the range of professional possibilities available with a graduate degree in communication; 
* identify professional goals and understand the process necessary to meet these goals;
* being the process of preparing materials targeted to position(s) of choice;