Although initially I did
not have very high expectations for this course and only enrolling because of
the compulsory course requirement, now at the end of it I feel as though I was
able to make it into a useful experience for myself. I enjoyed being able to
use the blog posts in a reflective manner to examine some of the things I had
learned throughout the semester in regards to the development of my
professional skills as a counsellor. I am glad I did not follow through on my
initial plan of responding to or analyzing articles that I may have been less
interested in or less relevant to my interests and my own professional
development. I felt that researching the paper and forming and discussing it in
class was a nice counter balance to the primarily reflective nature of my blog
posts while still providing plenty of opportunity to be analytic. I appreciated
that I was able to make my final paper my own independent project in an area
that I was curious about and that I was interested in exploring, while also
still being relevant to my professional goals. My initial worry of being placed
into a class that would be focused largely outside my field of study was eased
when I realized the level of control I had over the content of my final
assignment. Instead I actually appreciated hearing about the research done by
my colleagues in the program who were experts in a field that was different
from my own and it was interesting to hear what they had worked on especially because
it was so unique from my own education.
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