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Objectives of the Senior Year Experience

1. Promote the coherence and relevance of general education.
2. Promote integration and connections between general education and the academic major .
3. Foster integration and synthesis within academic majors.
4. Promote meaningful connections between general education, the academic major and career experiences.
5. Explicitly and intentionally develop important student skills, competencies, and perspectives that are tacitly or incidentally developed in the college curriculum.
6. Enhance awareness of and support for key personal adjustments encountered by seniors during their transition from college to post-college life.
7. Improve seniors' career preparation and pre-professional development.
8. Enhance seniors' preparation and prospects for postgraduate education.
9. Promote effective life planning and decision making with respect to practical issues likely to be encountered in adult life after college.
10. Encourage a sense of unity and community among the senior class, which can serve as a foundation for later alumni networking and future alumni support for the college.

Reference: John Gardiner: The Senior Year Experience.
About Campus, March/April 1999
Available from the Staff Development and Training Unit Resource Centre

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