Career Courses

Career courses are intentional resources designed to help you build skills that will assist you in navigating your career pathway, internship, and job searches. Learn more below and schedule an appointment with your academic advisor to map one (or more) into your degree plan.

SCLA 30000 - LIBERAL ARTS INFLUENTIALS
As a lecture/discussion course, Liberal Arts Influentials features speakers from a diverse range of Liberal Arts majors and introduces students to the myriad career opportunities available to Liberal Arts graduates. Speakers represent careers in the arts, media, industry, politics and more. Students are encouraged to initiate dialogue with working professionals.

COM 49000 - INTERNSHIP IN COMMUNICATION
Experiential, supervised training in public relations, journalism, telecommunication, oral interpretation, speech education, organizational communication, or public communication.

COM 49101 - BOILER COMMUNICATION
This course provides a practical, hands-on approach to public relations by working in student-led teams to produce comprehensive, strategic communication campaigns for actual clients. The course also includes many opportunities for professional development and portfolio building.

PHIL 11500 - WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO WITH THAT?
This course is designed for all philosophy majors, but is open to anyone interested in minor/majoring in philosophy. The format for this course is based on three components: reading and reflection, along with in-class discussion; in-class guest speakers who will address various topics in philosophy as a field, and/or professionalization (both within and outside of academia); and short written exercises, often done in class, which are designed to build up to the final project. The professionalization experts will help students develop their career goals, identify possible internships and scholarships to pursue while a student at Purdue, and develop career goals for after they have graduated.

SOC 42300 - FIELD PRACTICUM IN SOCIOLOGY AND LAW AND SOCIETY
Field experience in criminal justice system or social services. Students serve as “interns” in a criminal justice or social service agency one day (or its equivalent) per week, under the supervision of agency personnel. Application of theory and empirical research findings to field problems.

SOC 48900 - RESEARCH INTERNSHIP IN SOCIOLOGY AND LAW AND SOCIETY
Course organized around internship experience in organizations that collect or analyze data from surveys, social media, focus groups, interviews, or experiments.