 I'm excited to introduce FISM 1700 Connecting Academics to Careers, a first year seminar course that's available for students who are within the Faculty of Public Affairs at Carlton University and are in the first year of their undergraduate program. This is a course where students are going to be working in a very collegial and shared environment where they are able to support each other and learn more about what careers are and possibly could be within public affairs. So we'll be learning more about what it's like to work in public affairs and also the types of skills and expertise that you might need in order to be able to successfully obtain a job in public affairs. So students will work through a process of learning more about themselves and the skills that they already have and the skills that they will be developing through their undergraduate program and the knowledge and expertise that's subject specific and how these transferable skills can help them to secure employment of their given or chosen pathway. The course is intended to be very collegial and supportive and highly hands-on even though we may be in an online environment, students will have the opportunity to work in small groups and pairs and learn more about each other's programs, where their commonalities are but also where their unique pieces are and how this is important for them in their learning and development. We engage with a range of readings within the class and these are intended to support students to learn more about what it's like to work in public affairs and how they might achieve a job at the end of their undergraduate program.