![]() On the other, the course has been a cornucopia of practical guidance, much of it from visiting alumni, guests, and Bates Career Development Center staff, for life in the real world.Īnd the students’ final project is a so-called Purposeful Work Blueprint that includes the obituary. ![]() On the one hand, Fraser-Thill has used philosophy and psychology to teach students to harmonize their interests, abilities, and values as they consider career choices now and in the future. Where Purposeful Work is a college-wide emphasis on preparing students for lives of meaningful work, “Life Architecture” takes very specific aim at that goal. Fraser-Thill, a lecturer in psychology, also directs program design for Purposeful Work.Īnd the course, one of several offerings under the aegis of Purposeful Work during Short Term 2016, may be the purest distillation of that initiative to date. If that sounds like an objective of the college’s ambitious Purposeful Work initiative that President Clayton Spencer instituted at Bates in 2013, it’s no coincidence. “Life Architecture: Designing Your Future” gives students know-how, habits, and - crucially - self-knowledge that will help them make the best marriage of profession and personal fulfillment. ![]() It’s an assignment that Rebecca Fraser-Thill gave in a course she introduced for Short Term this year. The idea is that formally summarizing your life, even if that summary is speculative, can cause you to consider what you really want your story to be. But if you want students to think intentionally about the adult lives they’ll lead, you can ask them to envision the future “retrospectively” - by writing their own obituaries. It may sound macabre, especially on the eve of a weekend when the gates to the future will open wide for the Bates Class of 2016. ![]() “There has to be some deeper thread running underneath so you know why you’re doing all those things.” (Phyllis Graber Jensen/Bates College) Building your life is more than jobs, budgets, and taxes, says Lecturer in Psychology Rebecca Fraser-Thill. ![]()
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