OSHER 355 - Finding Purpose, Strength and Passion at 'Work' after Age 50

Engage in discovery about the roles passion, strength and community or market need play in your individual pursuits. In this course students will take a look at potential new working identities and consider how at this point in their lives they might reinvent themselves through volunteer or paid endeavors. Using the research of Herminia Ibarra of Havard Business School, students will study the cycle of reinvention. Illustrative case studies will be used to show how others have gone about finding new work identities. In addition, students will use the work of Marcus Buckingham to examine how their own passion and strength converge together with market need to discover how individuals can make their own special contributions.