This seminar is an opportunity for you to engage in holistic reflection of your life and education, through the assigned readings, and with others in the class.  You will be required to systematically examine your next steps after graduation and your motivations for engaging in these steps.  This will require you to reflect on your past experiences before a Christian University as well as your undergraduate experience, considering significant information you have gained through life experience, texts, and articles you have read, papers you have written, projects/testing you have participated in, and relationships you have made.  In short, answer the question how has your academic experience at a Christian university intersected with your life story to shape your future?  In summary, discuss how your “passions” have developed as well as the future form your commitment to the common good will take. Last, consider why is it important to acknowledge and articulate your motivations in pursuing your life of commitment?  
Things to include in the paper: 
1.     In the beginning was God
2.     Radical hospitality 
3.     Support systems (family, friends, and mentors)
4.     Impactful courses 
a.      Psychology of immigration
b.     Psychological impacts of poverty 
c.      Working with vulnerable persons
d.     Intersections between poverty and government policy 
e.     Community development 
5.     Selfcare 
6.     Motivations/passions
7.     Resilience 
8.     What’s next?
a.      Rest
b.     Work in the social services field 
c.      Pay student loans 
d.     Continue education (master’s in counseling)