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My school does co-op's and has a 1 credit co-op prep course. We do have practice interviewing there. We also do resume workshops, general best practices for the
by adjkant 9y ago
My school does co-op's and has a 1 credit co-op prep course. We do have practice interviewing there. We also do resume workshops, general best practices for the industry you're in, etc.
You can do both the content and the prep, as I am sure is the case with Stanford CS.
While it's unique to have a course specifically named for this and am sad to see it as well, I don't think this is as big as people are making it out to be, nor is it a canary in the coal mine for higher education. To me, this only signifies the growing shift in education, as it becomes more available to all, being about preparing for your career as much as learning itself. The simple fact is that most attending college today are not doing so just out of the desire to learn alone, but also want to, well, have a nice career in their respective industry. To be able to make a living.
While I would also agree with cautioning about education for career alone, I think it's important that modern education focuses on both. It's the reality of an increasingly college educated world.
- Eridrus 9y agoHey it could be worse, people could be getting a degree because they need it for signaling purposes and/or to satisfy an arbitrary immigration bureaucracy and don't actually need any of the things they're being taught. Oh, wait :)