Hi Jessica, You are right on the mark about making the connection to the "real world" for your students. The required gen ed courses can present a challenge for instructors as they try to make applications to the lives of their students. With psychology classes you have many great opportunities to make applications in terms of why we, as humans, do the things we do. For example, it takes 28 tries to change a behavior, 20 tries to remove the old behavior and 8 tries to develop the new behavior. I always use exercise for this example. 80% of the people that start exercising quit within 3 months, why? This will create all kinds of discussion. This discussion can range from dieting to purchasing (advertisements). You then can weave the examples back to the career world and why a course like this is important to their total educational sequence. Good luck with your efforts. Gary