Undergraduate Catalog 2023-2024

NASC 4930 Internship in Natural Science

This course allows students the opportunity to participate in applied job-related experiences in the natural sciences: biology, chemistry, geology, and environmental science. Students may repeat the course for credit.

Registration Name

Internship in Natural Science

Lecture Hours

1-3

Lab Hours

0

Credits

1-3

Prerequisite

Permission of Department

Offered

Demorest: Spring

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 of the 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 based on the student's knowledge and coursework.
  6. To expand on your critical analysis skills.