Objectives 4.1 Analyze the value of a degree program to professional and personal development.
4.2 Evaluate the effect of completing the bachelor’s program on current and future professional goals.
4.3 Apply critical thinking to the professional decision-making process.
4.4 Evaluate the effect of completing the bachelor’s program on your critical thinking abilities, behavior, and decision-making.
4.5 Assess the evolution of the university learning goals—professional competence and values, critical thinking and problem solving, communication, information utilization, and collaboration—with respect to your professional life.
4.6 Reflect on the role of learning and its importance to your personal growth and development.
4.7 Recommend possible avenues for continuing education and professional advancement.
4.8 Establish the relationship between completing the bachelor's program and lifelong learning.
Reading Read Ch. 5 of Critical Thinking.
Reading Read Ch. 9 of Critical Thinking.
Reading Read this week’s Electronic Reserve Readings.
Participation Participate in class discussion. 3-26 1
Discussion Questions Respond to weekly discussion questions. 1
Individual
Past, Present, and Future Paper This is a three-part, 1,400- to 2,100-word paper in which you reflect on your personal and professional growth during your University of Phoenix program of study.
Reflect on where you were in your personal and professional life when you started at University of Phoenix.
• How did you feel about the role of learning and its importance to your personal growth and development?
• What was your level of professional competence in problem solving, written and oral communication skills, information retrieval and utilization, and collaboration?
• What were your career goals?
Evaluate the growth you experienced during your program of study.
• Evaluate how your courses and experiences contributed to your growth, problem solving,