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Summer Institute

SummeR - 12 Credits

Take the Summer "On" with employers like Amazon!

The C21 Story Institute will immerse students in a four-week “bootcamp” with partnering employers that uses story skills to integrate learning experiences with career preparation. Held in Summer A Term, this full-time, 12-credit intensive is designed to accelerate your learning through employer challenges likely encountered in your first "real job," so that when you are ready to enter the work force you'll hit the ground running.  

Eligibility: Priority will be given to Arts & Sciences majors

Key Benefits

By engaging in real-world employer challenges, hands-on career trainings and individual coaching sessions, you will:

  • earn 5 credits of VLPA and 5 credits of I&S (plus 2 additional credits)
  • participate in a "bar raising" community of peers and mentors
  • learn how to be an effective and fierce collaborator
  • learn from failure and feedback
  • practice career navigation skills, such as networking
  • gain 21st century design thinking and storytelling skills
  • build your network of faculty, mentors, career contacts and peers
  • leave with real-world experience for your resume

 

Story--The Name of the Game

One key question is asked at nearly every important job interview: “Why should we hire you?” Your potential employer is asking you to tell them your "story."  Leaders, thinkers, innovators and entrepreneurs agree: Story is at the heart of every important human enterprise, from business to arts, science to culture, technology to politics. How will you know what role you are going to play?

C21 combines skills and practices from the professional world with an idea at the heart of all the arts and sciences: story. By the end of the four weeks, you will be able to tell the story of who you are and how you want to make an impact in the world, with the creative, communication, and collaboration skills 21st century employers demand. You will also leave with a network of staff, faculty, peers and employer contacts to propel you in your career journey.

Just being around all of those driven people, both student and mentor/staff, pushed me to be my best self ...It was exhausting. It was hard. But it was a ride, and that's what I was looking for.

--Cheyenne Jobe, student

 

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