Post-Grad Plans
Courses
Concentration Basics
Experiential Learning Opps
Potpourri
100

Accenture, Bain & Company, Deloitte, FCB Chicago, and Morningstar

What are first destinations for LOC grads?

100

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?

100

Students who are unsure which SESP concentration they want to pursue enter the school this way

What is undeclared?

100

Internship during junior year when students activate what they've learned in classes and apply to an organization

What is the Practicum?

100

The newest concentration in SESP

What is Elementary Teaching?

200

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?

200

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?

200

Students in this concentration declare a competency area in WCAS

What is Secondary Teaching?

200

Requirement in SESP that can be fulfilled by studying abroad

What is Global Engagement requirement?

200

Community Spotify playlist, candy bowl, helpful team who provide information and answer questions

DAILY DOUBLE!!

300

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?

300

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?

300

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?

300

Placement in an area middle or high school for a full time experience in the winter of senior year

What is student teaching?

300

Weekly email sent to SESP undergrads with announcements and opportunities

What is the SOAP?

400

Carnegie Museum of Natural History, Epic, Genesys Works, Jellyvision Labs, Inc., and Deloitte

What are first destinations for Learning Sciences grads?

400

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?

400

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?

400

The certificate that connects students with community partners to collaborate on projects that provide benefits to the organization.

What is the Civic Engagement Certificate?

400

Annual event that features Crave Bars

What is the SESP Ice Cream Social?

500

Americorps, Lurie Children's Hospital, Queen's District Attorney's Office, Sesame Workshop, the Medical College of Wisconsin

Daily Double!!

500

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?

500

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?

500

Earning credit for working with a professor in their lab

What is a research apprenticeship?

500

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?