Overview
This course is intended to be of benefit to people who work with individuals seeking career development assistance, career professionals who want ideas for dealing with their clients, or groups of people who share a common interest in issues related to career development. The course is based on the premise that, regardless of their work settings, all career development professionals work with others to help produce change.
Regardless of the context, it is important for all career development practitioners to be able to establish collaborative working relationships that are founded on mutual trust and respect. In these interactions, career professionals must be able to help their clients to:
- identify the nature of the desired change and develop appropriate action plans; and
- implement a strategy for producing the desired change
Psychology 405 focuses on the first step in the above process; that is, creating a working alliance with a person, group, or agency that will facilitate the ultimate goal of developing and implementing an intervention plan. The course describes the knowledge and skills career development practitioners need to achieve these ends.
Evaluation
To receive credit for PSYC 405, you must complete all of the assignments, achieve a mark of at least 50 percent on the skill assignments and the Term Paper/Project Assignment, and obtain a course composite grade of D (50 percent). The weighting of the composite grade is as follows:
| Activity | Weight |
| Quiz 1 | 5% |
| Quiz 2 | 5% |
| Skill Assignment 1 | 20% |
| Quiz 3 | 5% |
| Skill Assignment 2 | 30% |
| Term Paper or Term Project | 35% |
| Total | 100% |
To learn more about assignments and examinations, please refer to Athabasca University’s online Calendar.
Materials
This course either does not have a course package or the textbooks are open-source material and available to students at no cost. This course has a Course Administration and Technology Fee, but students are not charged the Course Materials Fee.
All materials are available online.
Challenge for credit
Overview
The challenge for credit process allows you to demonstrate that you have acquired a command of the general subject matter, knowledge, intellectual and/or other skills that would normally be found in a university-level course.
Full information about challenge for credit can be found in the Undergraduate Calendar.
Evaluation
To receive credit for the PSYC 405 challenge registration, you must achieve an overall grade of at least D (50 percent).
| Activity | Weight |
| Demonstration Video and Analysis | 50% |
| Written Exam | 50% |
| Total | 100% |
Challenge for credit course registration form