Undergraduate Catalog 2023-2024

IDIS 3398 Internship

The internship is a supervised volunteer learning experience in an agency that links academic knowledge with practice experience. In addition to the volunteer work performed as an intern, the student may be assigned readings related to the internship.

Registration Name

Internship

Lecture Hours

6

Lab Hours

3-18

Credits

1-6

Prerequisite

Permission of instructor.

Offered

Demorest: As needed

Student Learning Outcomes

Upon the completion of this course, students will be able to demonstrate the following outcome-based learning skills:
  1. Understand internship site in the context of knowledge gained through previous coursework. 
  2. Think critically about the forces and factors that shape the behavior of internship site.
  3. Reflect about the relationship between the individual objectives and the outcomes of the internship.
  4. Gain knowledge of varying points of view and interpretations by other people in the field and to better understand those viewpoints.