Curriculum Integration
Your support allows us to partner with faculty to develop and implement innovative courses and curriculum, connecting academic learning to career readiness.
About
Georgetown students acquire broad and deep knowledge through their courses. A core pillar of our work at Cawley is to help them understand and articulate how the experiences and skills they develop in the classroom translates to their post-graduate pursuits—be they work, graduate school, service, or life in general.
To be most effective at doing this, the work that we do cannot just take place inside the walls of the Cawley Career Education Center. Career development has to be integrated into academic programs as well, so that what students encounter at Georgetown is a campus-wide ecosystem that supports holistic career development.
That is why one of our key initiatives at Cawley is to work alongside faculty to develop curricula that address the active learning needed to translate students’ academic experiences to the world beyond.
Types of Engagement
Course in Career
We invite faculty to teach a customized section of our 1-credit career course—UNXD 190 Personal Narrative & Professional Discernment. We provide the core curriculum and work with faculty members to tailor modules to their specific discipline.
Career in Course
We facilitate the integration of career readiness and vocational discernment into core curriculum course through:
- Reflective exercises focused on the translation of academics to the world of work
- Workshops and guest lectures
- “Course & Career” office hours hosted by faculty
Career Brain Trust
We are establishing a faculty and staff career advisory board. Members will be paid a stipend to collaborate on how Georgetown can better serve the career needs of students through academic and co-curricular partnerships.
Faculty & Staff Career Champions Program
Since 2019, we invite graduating seniors to nominate faculty and staff members at Georgetown who have impacted their career decisions in a positive way during their time at Georgetown. We honor those faculty and staff champions with a reception at Cawley. To date, we have recognized over 80 Georgetown faculty and staff.
“My class, the Humanities@Work, focuses on how the humanities impact the world and what pathways are open for students as a result of their training in the humanities. Once I learned that the Cawley Career Education Center was working with faculty to integrate into classes their distinct modes of personal reflection and storytelling, I knew that they had to be a part of the Humanities@Work. Working with Cawley helped me to accomplish the goals of the course: to help students to think more broadly and more creatively about their personal and professional trajectories.”
Matt Pavesich, Professor of English
Your support allows us to partner with faculty to develop and implement innovative courses and curriculum, connecting academic learning to career readiness.