Undergraduate Catalog 2021-2022

GEOL 4930 Internship in Natural Sciences

This course allows students the opportunity to participate in applied job-related experience in the natural sciences: biology, chemistry, geology or environmental science. The course may be repeated for credit.

Credits

1-3

Prerequisite

Major in science, have necessary course work determined by faculty supervisor, and permission of department chair.

Student Learning Outcomes

Upon the completion of this course, students will be able to demonstrate the following outcome-based learning skills:

  1. Think critically and analytically about the forces and factors that shape the behavior of agencies where the intern has worked.
  2. Promote critical thought and reflection about the relationship between the student's individual objectives and the outcomes of the internship.
  3. Gain a thorough knowledge of varying points of view and interpretations by other people in the field and to better understand those viewpoints.
  4. An in-depth understanding agency, the type of work and industry it partakes in, and the student's increased appreciation of that industry.
  5. The ability to use the offered theories to analyze and critically assess the internship in light of the student's knowledge and coursework.
  6. To expand on your critical analysis skills.