PPS

Overview of Personal and Professional Skills Course 

Introduction:

The personal and professional skills course aims to develop responsibility, practical problem-solving, good intellectual habits, ethical understandings, perseverance, resilience, an appreciation of identity and perspective, and an understanding of the complexity of the modern world. Emphasis is on the development of skills needed to successfully navigate higher education, the workplace and society. With that in mind the PPS will be very practical in nature. 

Aims of PPS:

Through PPS, students develop:

• Good intellectual habits

• Practical problem-solving skills

• Self-awareness and an appreciation of identity, individual strengths and individual limitations

• An appreciation of ethical issues relating to his or her personal, social and work experience

• An awareness of his/her own perspectives as one of many perspectives, and one that has been shaped by contingent cultural factors

• Intercultural awareness

• The skill of communicating clearly and coherently

• Personal and interpersonal skills for the workplace and beyond

• The skills of reflection and critical thinking in personal, social and professional situations

• An understanding that many questions, issues or problems do not always have simple right or wrong answers

PPS is:

• A course that meets junior & senior year and supports other elements of the IBCP Core, particularly the Service Learning experience, Language Development, and the Reflective Project.

• Internally assessed

Requirements:

• All CP students are required to complete the personal and professional skills core component as a timetabled course. 

• Students are expected ​to devote a minimum of 90 timetabled hours to the personal and professional skills course.