Registration is open! Complete information on this NetVUE regional gathering is available on the Hope College website. The deadline to register is April 25, 2025.
Academic disciplinary courses have sometimes been relegated to the margins of campus vocation initiatives. Other important areas of campus life—general education, career development, student life, and religious life—often serve as the center of vocational programming and culture-building. This gap creates a compelling opportunity for students to connect vocation to the knowledge and skills of academic disciplines, particularly as students’ central point of vocational focus is often grounded in their major field.
This NetVUE regional gathering seeks to help faculty members and academic departments integrate vocation into disciplinary courses and academic majors. Through a NetVUE Vocation Across the Academy Grant, Hope College further expanded vocational exploration across campus, funding and guiding the redesign of courses in nine different academic departments, focusing on how faculty might incorporate students’ vocational exploration through course content and activities.
This gathering will introduce ideas on disciplinary vocation integration, as well as provide opportunities for faculty to workshop ideas for redesigning their own courses in conversation with experienced colleagues from other institutions. Plenary and breakout sessions will address questions such as how to find substantive room for vocation in already over-full courses, how to align questions of work, meaning, and purpose into disciplinary course content, and how disciplinary courses might incorporate habits and practices of vocational reflection, as well as experiential learning and traditional career development work. When an institution pairs courses within the academic majors with vocation initiatives already at work on campus, it helps build a network for every student to be engaged in vocational exploration with multiple touch-points.
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