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Curriculum & Careers

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Through the Curriculum & Careers initiative, Clark has integrated career readiness into our undergraduate liberal-arts curriculum, better preparing students for success after graduation.

Working closely with their academic advisors over four years, students identify how to translate their knowledge, skills, and experiences into action — a critical step that will allow them to thrive in their lives and careers. This action-oriented approach — linking learning in the classroom to in-depth projects, internships, leadership opportunities, campus engagement, and volunteer work — is a hallmark of Clark’s liberal-arts education.

Initiative Goals

 

Integrate the concept of careers into a liberal-arts education through a holistic and equity-focused lens.

 

Increase the visibility and connectivity of curricular and co-curricular learning, resulting in student success after graduation.

 

Develop mechanisms to sustain and institutionalize Curriculum & Careers.

 

Contribute our experiences to national conversations about the value of a liberal-arts education.

How Curriculum & Careers Works at Clark

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Major Maps

Experiential major maps help students visualize and design their journeys at Clark and beyond.

Browse major maps

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POP Courses

Problems of Practice (POP) courses incorporate project-based learning, community-engaged learning, and ongoing reflection in order to examine an issue of consequence impacting a community, profession, or discipline.

View POP courses

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Career Readiness Competencies

Clark has adapted the National Association of Colleges and Employers’ Career Readiness Competencies to develop our own working definitions of the eight foundational skills that prepare students for success in the workplace.

Check out the competencies

About Curriculum & Careers

Launched in 2019, with funding from the Arthur Vining Davis Foundation, Curriculum & Careers strengthened the partnership between faculty and staff leaders to enhance and develop courses; create experiential major maps; and infuse career readiness into academic advising.

Questions?

Questions about Curriculum & Careers? Contact Evan Wilson.