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