Careers Class schedule—living document that will change over the semester
1 credit = 16 classes
Date |
Topic |
Assignments due |
8/27 |
Introduction |
|
8/29 |
Career Objectives |
Write down your personal career objectives: where do you
want to be in 5 years and in 10 years?
List some backup plans in case your first career goals are not
immediately achievable for any reason |
9/3 |
Strengths and Weaknesses |
Read https://80000hours.org/articles/personal-strengths/ and write down
what you think are your important strengths and weaknesses. |
9/5 |
Job opportunities |
Find 3 open job opportunities of potential interest in 3
different employment categories (academic, research-only, government,
for-profit industry, non-profit organization. (see job opportunities pdf in class
website) |
9/10 |
Resumes |
Prepare 3 one-page resumes for the 3 open candidate jobs (see
resume-asignment.pdf in class website) |
9/12 |
AI |
Describe how AI might impact your career preferences. See https://aiwhim.com/will-ai-replace-your-science-career/ and https://www.nationalacademies.org/news/2023/11/how-ai-is-shaping-scientific-discovery |
9/17 |
Proposals |
Turn in class discussion proposal. Arka:
workshop report |
9/19 |
Proposals |
Write an AI-assisted proposal concept and describe its strengths and weaknesses. Large Language models: https://libguides.library.arizona.edu/ai-literacy-instructors/beyond |
|
No class week of 9/23 |
Alfred out of town |
10/1 |
Rishi – AI theory and recent advances |
Find a deep-learning paper to discuss |
10/3 |
Mackenzie Mills (10 min);
Arin – Use of AI in science coding |
TBD |
|
No class week of 10/7 |
Europa Clipper launch! |
|
No class week of 10/14 |
LPL field trip |
10/22 |
David—Time management |
Watch “How to gain control of your free time” and make
note of all tasks you did in the last two days (in 30-minute chunks) |
10/24 |
Kiki—astronomy outreach |
watch a popular astronomy-related TED talk or outreach
video—what made the presentation effective (or not)? |
10/29 |
Ricardo—Developing new skills; DEI issues |
TBD If time: NASA review panel experience--Namya |
10/31 |
No class |
Happy Halloween |
11/5 |
Isaiah--LinkedIn |
TBD |
11/7 |
Namya—proposal writing |
Pick a proposal call of your choice and talk about how you
would address it. |
11/12 |
Arka—Making effective presentations to different audiences |
Revise your personal career objectives: where do you want to be in 5 years and in 10
years, with backup plans. What (if
anything) changed and why? |
Potential student-led class discussion topics:
Developing new skills (that you don’t typically learn in classes)
Making effective public presentations (to different audiences)
How to create or sustain a positive working environment
Dealing with obstacles and challenges
Diversity, equity, inclusion issues
More on proposals
How to prepare an effective CV (full summary of your accomplishments, more than the 1-page resume)
Career stories
More on AI