Live Your Best (Future) Life: From College to Career

In this course students will identify and reflect deeply on their strengths, values, and motivations and learn how to apply self-knowledge to their search for personally meaningful work. Students will be introduced to leading career development theories including Pryor and Bright’s Chaos Theory of Careers, Krumboltz’s Planned Happenstance, Life Design principles, and Jung’s Theory of Personality; hear from professional experts; and practice skills proven to increase access to purposeful opportunities in the world of work. Classes will involve instructor led lectures and alumni expert guest panels followed by discussions, videos/podcasts, career inventories, and individual/group reflections using tools and developing strategies to navigate immediate and future search for meaningful work.



Tracy Himmel Isham is a professional having worked for 14 years in the natural resource sector and 20 years at Middlebury College and the Center for Careers and Internships as a social impact and education career adviser. Her career has spanned the nonprofit, for-profit, start-up venture, and association worlds focusing on global issues and pragmatic solutions: the environment and ecosystem market-based models; economic, community and market development; fair trade; innovation and social entrepreneurship; sustainable food systems; and educational access.