Post-Grad Plans
Accenture, Bain & Company, Deloitte, FCB Chicago, and Morningstar
What are first destinations for LOC grads?
The topics covered in this course will help students understand the major developmental issues of adulthood, from college-age through middle and old age and to the end of life.
What is Adulthood and Aging, SESP 203?
Students who are unsure which SESP concentration they want to pursue enter the school this way
What is undeclared?
Internship during junior year when students activate what they've learned in classes and apply to an organization
What is the Practicum?
The newest concentration in SESP
What is Elementary Teaching?
Chicago Public Schools, Fulbright - Garcia Robles Scholarship, Simon Wiesenthal Center, Los Angeles Unified School District, and Allstate Insurance Co.
What are first destination jobs for Secondary Teaching grads?
In this course, students learn about children's biological, cognitive, social, and emotional development as well as their social environment, including family, peers, school, ethnic and cultural backgrounds.
What is Childhood and Adolescence, SESP 201?
Students in this concentration declare a competency area in WCAS
What is Secondary Teaching?
Requirement in SESP that can be fulfilled by studying abroad
What is Global Engagement requirement?
Community Spotify playlist, candy bowl, helpful team who provide information and answer questions
DAILY DOUBLE!!
American Institutes for Research, Black Rock, NYC Office of the Mayor, Department of Justice - Antitrust Division, Japanese Exchange and Teaching Program
What are first destinations for social policy grads?
This course explores social policy in the United States as a political, economic, and ideological process that is embedded in the racialized, classed, and gendered context of American society.
What is Social Policymaking and Implementation, SOC POL 312?
This concentration examines how people develop, influence, and shape their social settings–families, communities, educational institutions, and the workplace–across their lifespan.
What is Human Development in Context?
Placement in an area middle or high school for a full time experience in the winter of senior year
What is student teaching?
Weekly email sent to SESP undergrads with announcements and opportunities
What is the SOAP?
Carnegie Museum of Natural History, Epic, Genesys Works, Jellyvision Labs, Inc., and Deloitte
What are first destinations for Learning Sciences grads?
In this course students explore questions to gain insight into the social production, distribution, consumption, interpretation, and operationalization of "knowledge."
What is Understanding Knowledge, SESP 200?
This concentration examines key concepts and ideas about formal and informal change across levels of society - for example, individuals, groups, organizations, and sectors
What is Learning and Organizational Change?
The certificate that connects students with community partners to collaborate on projects that provide benefits to the organization.
What is the Civic Engagement Certificate?
Annual event that features Crave Bars
What is the SESP Ice Cream Social?
Americorps, Lurie Children's Hospital, Queen's District Attorney's Office, Sesame Workshop, the Medical College of Wisconsin
Daily Double!!
A key goal of this course is for students to develop an Learning Sciences-style sensibility for seeing and understanding learning. Thus, a major focus of this course will be to practice observing and analyzing learning phenomena.
What is Cognition in Action, LRN SCI 201?
This concentration analyzes the ways in which social policies and social institutions influence the course of human lives and the ways individuals and their contexts can shape social policies.
What is Social Policy?
Earning credit for working with a professor in their lab
What is a research apprenticeship?
Fall Quarter academic program that supports incoming FGLI first-years, transfers, and rising sophomores by using their histories and perspectives to help them thrive in their respective fields, at Northwestern, and beyond.
What is the SESP Leadership Institute?