Don't Cancel Class!
Want your students to continue learning while you are
away? The Learning Resource Center is happy to arrange for a
guest lecturer to present to your classes in your absence.
Check out popular lecture topics below and click on the links to
submit a request for a presentation.
- Adjusting
to college:
- Understanding Butler culture (academic and social aspects)
- Exploring issues related to separation from home, freedom and
peer influences
- Sharing tips on communication styles and healthy coping
- Interview
skills:
- Learning how to sell a major, internship and skill set in an
interview setting
- Understanding how to handle difficult interview questions
- Learning about ways to answer situational or behavioral types
of questions
- Major
and/or career:
- Making informed decisions about careers and majors
- Exploring common misperceptions and myths that can prohibit
effective career exploration
- Understanding self-assessment
- Exposing students to resources for researching majors and
careers
- Second
major/minor:
- Making informed decisions about majors and minors
- Understanding self-assessment as it related to majors and
minors
- Introducing students to resources for researching majors and
minors
- Stress
management:
- Understanding stress and its impact on the body
- Learning relaxation techniques
- Sharing helpful tips for living stress free
- Study
habits:
- Emphasizing skills and strategies that promote effective
learning
- Introducing and discussing "The Study Cycle" and "Intense Study
Sessions"
- Discussing the process of developing an effective study
plan
- Time
management:
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- Completing "Personal Time Survey"
- Discussing and sharing materials for planning and
organizing
- Sharing recommendations for efficient time planning
- Winning
resumes:
- Learning what employers look at when searching for resumes
- Sharing tips that get a document noticed
- Learning about using action words in your resume that can
showcase the skills employers seek
- Finding out what to put on a resume and the appropriate
location
If you have another lecture topic in mind, please contact the Learning Resource Center with your
request.