Internship Seminar

This seminar accompanies an internship that will be 12 hours per week for 10 weeks for a total of 120 hours in the field. The seminar is an academic anchor to the internship experience, and will meet both biweekly and online—except for the first two weeks, which will meet in-person. Weekly online components will involve students writing reflections and reactions to both their internship experiences and the course materials. In the Internship Seminar course, students will apply their skills and knowledge of the Liberal Arts discipline to an occupational setting.

During the 10-week internship, students are required to participate in a job-related capacity under supervision, and will keep activity logs recording and reflecting on their workplace skills/competencies developed over the course of the semester. Class sessions will support the work experience with career readiness and leadership workshops designed to foster students’ professional development. Students will also utilize ethnographic methods to analyze how they perceive their future selves in careers related to the Liberal Arts, evaluate social dynamics in the workplace, and situate the particular workplace into a larger social, political, and/or economic context. Readings, discussions, and assignments will provide analytic lenses/frames to help students understand the internship experience.

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