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PACE: Personalized Academic & Career Exploration

Are you...

• a new freshman or transfer sophomore?
• the first in your family to go to college?
• undecided or wavering about your major or minor?
• anxious about succeeding at Union?
• wondering what God has called you to do?

Personalized (2 weeks)

Understanding Yourself: Gifts Assessment

• Embracing Your Personality & Giftedness
• Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) Personality Assessment
• Introduction to Type Dynamics
• Introduction to Academic and Life Calling and Career Goal Setting

Academic (2 weeks)

Understanding How You Learn: Learning Styles Inventory

• Embracing Your Learning Style
• Study Skills & Time Management; Test-taking & Note-taking Strategies
• Reading Speed & Comprehension
• Curriculum Map & Degree Audit; Academic Advising Strategies
• GPA Calculation & Course Selection/Management

Career (2 weeks)

Understanding Your Major/Minor: Interest Inventory

• Embracing Your Interests: Strong Interest Inventory (SII) online
• Curriculum Map & Degree Audit
• Experiential Learning & Occupational Research
• 4-Year Goal Setting: Academic & Career Success Strategies
• Professional Development Documentation

Exploration (2 weeks)

Understanding Your Life Calling & Career: "Vocatio"

• Embracing Your Calling (Vocatio)
• Graduate School Research & The Personal Mission Statement
• Leadership Development
• Developing Your 4-Year Academic Success & Life Calling and Career Path
• Capstone Self-Reflection: Pursuing Vocation as Ministry

This is an 8-week course; Mon. or Thurs.; 2:30-5:50 p.m.
UNI 295 - PACE: Personalized Academic & Career Exploration
This course counts as a General Elective (2 credit hours). Limited space available.

Give us just 8 weeks to put you on... PACE!

For more information, email Assistant Dean Taylor in the Vocatio Center for Life Calling and Career at jtaylor@uu.edu.