The Advising & Career Center (ACC) fosters undergraduate students' personal, academic, and professional development. To explore career development resources or schedule an appointment with a SoHE career advisor, visit Career Development. SoHE career advisors help prepare students for life post-graduation through individual and group advising and integration of career readiness throughout our curriculum. Career DevelopmentĪctive engagement in the career development process is a vital component of a student’s personal growth in college and future success as a lifelong learner, professional, and global citizen. To explore academic advising resources or schedule an appointment with a SoHE academic advisor, visit Advising in SoHE. Academic AdvisingĮach SoHE student is assigned to an academic advisor in the Advising & Career Center. SoHE academic advisors support academic and personal success by partnering with current and prospective SoHE students as they identify and clarify their educational goals, develop meaningful academic plans, and pursue their own Wisconsin Experience. Through advising, academic planning, and career education, we support students as they navigate the college experience-from exploring our majors as prospective students to becoming SoHE alumni. The Advising & Career Center fosters undergraduate students' personal, academic, and professional development. Rather than adding additional expertise and knowledge in a particular field, this certificate gives students ways to apply what they have learned in their majors to real world problems in the process, they become confident and creative forward thinkers, who are able to work in interdisciplinary teams. Students acquire concrete methodologies which enable them to apply what they have learned in their degree studies in a way that goes beyond the theoretical emphasis of most degree programs. It is an empathetic, human-centered perspective that uses Design Thinking and draws from historical precedence and current research from a variety of fields to help solve complex and persistent problems. It begins with asking ‘better’ questions as a way to understand the root of the problem and why it is an issue.
What is Design Strategy?ĭesign Strategy is a successful approach to problem solving with a focus on quality of life and sustainable futures. Through applying Design Thinking techniques and exploring the interconnections between people, built, natural, and financial environments, students will learn to put ideas into action and develop forward-thinking approaches to a variety of issues. Housed in the School of Human Ecology, this eighteen-credit certificate in Design Strategy provides undergraduate students from all majors with a hands-on, interdisciplinary approach to problem solving for strategic change.