Professional Connections: Curriculum Mapping Workplace Competencies in Online General Education

Career Level: Intermediate career services professionals
Competency: Learning outcomes
Fee: $69 (member); $89 (nonmember);

Summary
The General Education department at the CUNY School of Professional Studies offers asynchronous online classes in a variety of subjects to an adult population interested in completing professional degrees to further their careers. In collaboration with administration, faculty, and instructional designers, the department implemented a curricular map of workplace competencies across 12 courses over a period of three years, including math, science, social science, and liberal arts subjects. In this interactive webinar, we will help participants brainstorm and plan the integration of career readiness at both course and program levels, as well as showcase our most effective online curriculum interventions. A worksheet will be provided to help attendees plan and integrate career competencies at the course or program level.

Following this program, you will be able to:
- Understand from a top-level view how to integrate career readiness into a variety of classes and subjects within a single department;
- Develop strategies to engage faculty, foster collaboration, and offer departmental support; and
- Implement instructional design techniques for promoting career readiness specific to the online classroom.
Presenters

Hannah Miller, Academic Program Manager, General Education, The City University of New York - School of Professional Studies
Hannah Miller joined the CUNY School of Professional Studies (SPS) in 2019, and serves as academic program manager of General Education. She supports the department's online program operations, including LMS course building and program assessment of student learning outcomes. In 2021, she became a CUNY Career Success Fellow because of her role in facilitating a program-wide initiative incorporating NACE competencies in 12 General Education undergraduate courses at SPS. Miller came to SPS with 15 years of online higher education experience in a variety of roles, including teaching art history and humanities as adjunct and full-time faculty; curriculum development; faculty training; and administrative oversight. Before teaching online, she received a master’s degree in curatorial studies from UCLA, curating an exhibition at the UCLA Fowler Museum and working at other Los Angeles institutions including the Getty Research Institute and Museum of Jurassic Technology.