BNS COOP PROGRAM GOALS

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Program Goals

• clarify short and long rang personal, educational and career goals
  
  
• explore career paths in neuroscience and related fields
  
  
• connect what you learn in the classroom to "the real world"
  
  
• connect what you learn on the job in the classroom
  
  
• test your values, interests, abilities and lifestyles against a career in medical laboratory science
  
  
• develop job-finding, job survival, and career advancement skills
  
  
• develop technical and non-technical transferable skills necessary for success at Northeastern University and beyond
  
  
• increase educational motivation by applying theory to practice in the world of work
  
  
• enhance your understanding of the opportunities and demands of the world of work
  
  
• strengthen your identity as a professional by working with other professionals as role models
  
  
• avoid "reality shock" through gradual preparation for the student-->worker transition
  
  
• develop job opportunities after graduation by securing useful employer contacts, by testing employment choices as an undergraduate, and by gaining marketable experience
  
  
• help meet financial responsibilities

Program Design

• promote collegiality between the medical laboratory science education community and professionals in the field by actively involving professionals in the educational experience of students while on co-op
  
  
• help employers to meet routine or special employment needs with high quality employees
  
  
• assist employers to recruit graduates
  
  
• enhance the relationship between Northeastern and the community.

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