MAP IV

How Can I Practice These Skills?

You can acquire these skills by combining academic, extracurricular, and experiential activities. Summer "vacations" offer you the opportunity to enhance your skills. Future employers will notice what you did (and did not do) with your summers.

Acquired Skills
Academic Practice
Extracurricular Practice
Experiential Practice
Communication College Writing, BOC, Working in groups to accomplish academic projects Advocacy groups, Recruitment for clubs,
SLATE, SUTV,
SU Ambassadors,
Activities that involve working with people		 Summer Work,
Internships & Co-Ops,
Study Abroad
Analytical Thinking Almost any course especially history, math, literature, the sciences College Republicans & Democrats,
Investment Club 		Any job/internship that requires problem-solving
Computer Computer Science courses, other courses that require the use of computers for word processing, spreadsheets, and information-gathering Mathematics Club;
Using computers to enhance your organizational mission 		An increasingly important component of many jobs
College work-study
Hobbies
Managerial Management courses;
Self-management:
allocating your study time efficiently;
prioritizing correctly		 Organizing charitable events such as blood drives; arranging fund-raisers; organizing information sessions about issues Positions that require you to balance a variety of competing tasks; assistant manager positions
Leadership Practicing the habits and behavior now in class that will become second nature in the working world: courtesy, promptness,attendance, completing assignments on time Assuming a leadership position in a club; becoming an R.A.;tutoring; getting different folks to work together towards a common goal, building consensus. Public service work,
Advocacy groups,
Adopt a cause!
Adaptability Adapting to each of your professors; going from essay test to objective test and doing equally well in both.

Embracing learning.

Adapting to different people and different roles--sometimes leading, sometimes following;

Embracing learning.

Adapt to different bosses and jobs the way you adapt to different professors and classes.

Embracing learning.

MAPs content managed by: David I. Henriques
Asst. Dean of Academic Programs and Services