Independent Study Syllabus

● Going over Syllabus

October 9th 2019 ● Credit/No Credit or Grade
● Prepare interview questions for us to take home as HW
● HW​: Prepare answers to interview questions
○ Career dev questions and questions we made

Worked on resumes, generated interview questions, and

October 16th 2019 discussed future goals and ambitions.

Bistro

● Practice interviews in class

October 23th 2019 ● HW​: Improve answers to questions
○ Practice on each other

October 30th

Bistro

● Look over resume and cover letter for final revision

November 6th 2019 ● HW:​ Make revisions to resume and cover letter
○ Potential thesis peer review

November 13th 2019

Bistro

● Look over completed applications

November 22nd 2019 ● Talk about who we should ask for letters of
recommendation
● HW:​ Ask for recommendations

11:30am
 ● Submit our final portfolios
December 4th 2019 ○ Supplemental Materials/work samples from
internship (2)
○ Resume
○ Cover letter

*add in other weeks

How to be graded?
-preparations: HW readiness, attending on time and full time for meetings, meeting on off-weeks
with each other, portfolio review criteria: overall improvement, overall thoroughness,
compatibility of goals and enactment of those in submitted work

December 4th 2019