Contact with peers, advisors, mentors, employers, and others directly related to the industry. This course provides students with the opportunity to gain knowledge and skills in an applied work-based internship in the student's chosen career field.
Prerequisites
Instructor Permission
Quarters Offered
Fall,
Winter,
Spring
Course Outcomes
Upon successful completion of the course, students should be able to demonstrate the following knowledge or skills:
- Apply appropriate workplace behaviors in a professional setting.
- Demonstrate content knowledge appropriate to the job assignment.
- Exhibit evidence of increased content knowledge gained through practical experience.
- Describe the nature and function of the organization in which the internship experience takes place.
- Explain how the internship placement site fits into the their personal, educational and career needs.
- Evaluate the internship experience in terms of their personal, educational and career needs.
Institutional Outcomes
IO1 Communication: Communicate effectively and respectfully using verbal, written, and computer skills
IO3 Human Relations/Workplace Skills: Students will be able to demonstrate teamwork, ethics, appropriate safety awareness and/or workplace specific skills
Course Content Outline
- Complete a work-based learning contract to include
- Internship Description: the student will describe the position and responsibilities.
- Learning Objectives: the student will identify learning objectives by listing what they want to achieve by the end of the work placement.
- Learning Content: the student will describe what activities will be completed to achieve the learning objectives.
- Complete evaluation process to include
- The student will be evaluated by the work-based learning supervisor.
- The student will complete a self-evaluation at the end of the work experience and address in a paper whether or not the learning objectives were achieved and how.
- Complete an Internship Portfolio. The portfolio requirements:
- Completed work-based learning contract
- Reflections (2-4 pages) on the work students did in the internship and perceptions of what has been learned from the experience.
- Conclusion (1-2 pages) in which students analyzes the contributions of this experience to their career goals and to their understandings of the field.
- Time log (dates/times/activities) showing how their hours were spent.