FE 280A5 Cooperative Work Experience

Credits: 1

Offers placement in a business, agency, and/or industry for on-the-job training related to the student’s curriculum.

Prerequisite: Determined by each curriculum. Guidelines on file in the Cooperative Work Experience office and with each curriculum’s CWE Instructor and Director.
Student Learning Outcomes:

Write, implement, complete, and evaluate learning objectives.
Select and apply job skills from the specific curriculum to a work experience.
Apply professional work habits on job site.

Content Outline
Each curriculum develops a course outline/syllabus to meet its specific curriculum objectives for the one hour seminar. The seminar requirements may be met by meeting one hour weekly or by meeting requirements set up by the curriculum area for the independent study option. A typical seminar/independent study option outline may include topics as follows:

Session 1
- Course outline
- Job attitudes
- Developing and achieving learning objectives
- Weekly reports
- Expectations
- Roles and responsibilities
Session 2
- Organizational charts
- Chain of command
- Job description
- Structure of work and organizations
- Integrating CWE and classroom training
Session 3
- Presentation of job duties
- Communication in the work environment
- Policies and procedures
- Group dynamics
Sessions 4 and 5
- Work sample report
- Problem solving
- Critical thinking processes
- Case studies
- Work and professional ethics
Session 6
- Midterm evaluations
- Field trip
- Guest presenters from the field
- Discuss job market trends
- Qualifications for hiring and promotion
- Changes anticipated in the future
- Career trends
- Legal issues (i.e., alcohol and drug testing and impact on work)
Session 7
- Resume development or update
- Student work sample reports
- School to work transition
- Networking
Session 8
- Interview procedures
- Skill in interviewing
- Video tape interviews
Session 9
- Review and critique taped interviews
- Job applications
- State application form
Session 10
- Final site evaluation
- Thank you letters
- Written report evaluating the CWE experience
- Transition to next term
- Job, work and family issues

Independent study option requires weekly reports of tasks worked on or completed, essay statements of impression created, problems solved, etc. May require the development of a comprehensive journal. Students on the independent option meet regularly with the CWE Instructor from their curriculum area.

Lower Division Transfer CWE - Elective (FE280A-L, 1-9)

1 - Mentoring

2 - Student Government

3 - Student Activities

4 - Community Service

5 - Inter-Cultural

6.- Leadership

7 - Peer Assisting

8 - ESL (sec 1)

9 - Career Exploration