202: AFS/EE Section Resource Exchange Roundtables - (Conference Attendance Credit: #1 hr)

Concurrent Sessions 4

Presenter: Michael Sturm

Summary
The professional development of undergraduate students in family science is critical as family science may be unknown to employers and workplaces and students often have concerns about finding employment in the field. Aims at increasing the employability of family science graduates can help advance the field and raise the profile of family science programs among employers. The use of student generated video assignments in family science pre-professional courses will be shared with attendees as a means for facilitating students' professional development. Steps for implementing similar assignments, rubrics, and student samples will be shared with attendees. The use of video assignments has implications for family science students, departments, and human service internship sites.

Objectives
-- To identify the skills assessed by student-generated video assignments in pre-professional family science courses.
-- To identify the benefits of utilizing student-generated videos in family science pre-professional courses.
-- To determine how student-generated video assignments could be integrated into one's own family science courses to facilitate students' professional development.

Subject Codes: education, employment, technology
Population Codes: undergraduate students
Method and Approach Codes: Family Science, curriculum development, professional development