GradCO: Professional Development Course

This course is designed to deliver a variety of high-quality professional development trainings to graduate students and postdoctoral fellows. Even if you are not a graduate student, the contents of this course can benefit you on your academic and professional journey. This course covers critical professional development competencies including communication, networking, career planning and strategizing, collaboration, teamwork, inclusivity, sharing your contributions to your field, and self-awareness. Learners will gain skills in a wide array of topics taught by experts across several institutions of higher education in Colorado. Lessons are divided into five modules, each containing 4-6 hours of content. We expect it might take 5 weeks to complete all the material if you dedicated an hour a day. However, recognizing the diverse needs of our learners, the course is designed to allow for flexibility. You don’t need to complete every lesson, you can pick those parts of the course most relevant to your interests and needs.