There are two required textbooks for this course, available at the University Bookstore (Links to an external site.) and also on reserve at the College Library. There is also a free Student Guide, available for download.

Katharine Brooks, You Majored in What? Mapping Your Path from Chaos to Career (New York: Viking, 2009).

Katharine Brooks has a doctorate in Educational Psychology with an emphasis in Counseling Psychology. She is currently the Executive Director of the Office of Personal and Career Development for Wake Forest University. Prior to this position she served for 10 years as the Director of Liberal Arts Career Services for The University of Texas at Austin. (Paraphrased from her web site (Links to an external site.) at Psychology Today.)

Available from the University Bookstore (Links to an external site.) or your university or public library.

Donald O. Clifton et al., StrengthsQuest: Discover and develop your strengths in academics, career and beyond (New York: Gallup Press, 2006).*

Donald O. Clifton (1924-2003) was an American psychologist who developed the eponymous Clifton StrengthsFinder, Gallup’s online psychological assessment. Clifton was professor of educational psychology at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln from 1950 to 1969 when he founded Selection Research, Inc. (SRI); in 1988 SRI acquired the Gallup Organization. (Paraphrased from Wikipedia (Links to an external site.).)

Available from the University Bookstore (Links to an external site.) or your university or public library.

If you purchase a used copy of this book, or are using a library copy, you will also need to purchase an individual code for roughly $10 (Links to an external site.) to access the online StrengthsFinder quiz.

Greg Downey, Taking Initiative Student Guide (2016).

This student guide includes background material for all of the lectures, discussions, and assignments in INTER-LS 210, and is designed to be a useful resource for students beyond the class and beyond their graduation.