CATALYST Mentoring
REAL Program
Experiential learning opportunity
Engage with a professional mentor in your discipline to explore career options, professional readiness, personal strengths and values, and develop your leadership skills.
Lead
Prerequisites
Students engaging with the CATALYST program must begin in the Fall, and for winter and spring terms must have been enrolled in the previous term.
Grading
P/N
Maximum enrollment
100
NACE competencies
- Leadership
- Professionalism/work ethic
- Career management
Credits
- 3
Registration options
Start terms
- Fall
Offered online
Yes
Learning outcomes
- Understand the components of effective mentoring relationships
- Confront current beliefs about leadership and develop a personal leadership identity
- Identify how personal strengths, dispositions, and values influence leadership
- Enhance interpersonal and communication skills
- Articulate personal and professional goals and development areas
Content / knowledge / concepts
- Skills and considerations necessary to create and sustain an effective long term mentoring relationship
- Professional communication and how to build and maintain a professional network
- Exploration of self: strengths, values, and goals
- Leadership theory and how your strengths and values influence leadership
- Career readiness skills that important to employers, including identification of current skill levels and development areas
Course experiences
- Schedule and complete monthly 1 hour meetings with a professional mentor
- Complete various personal assessments (strengths, values, professional readiness)
- Complete a shared reading with mentor on values based leadership and discuss
- Create a leadership identity statement and professional development plan
- Identify service and leadership opportunities in local community
Assessment activities
- Digital portfolio
- Reflections
- Discussion entries
- Short assignments
- Program assessment
Additional info
Go to CATALYST mentorship program to read more and apply to the program.