Academic Frameworks

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Academic Frameworks
Giving internship credit where its due.
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The Point

• Many more than one option for amplifying
  maximizing the learning inherent in an internship
  so that students may earn credit.
• Pitch the academic framework
• that suits your campus!

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• Take-Aways

• Agenda

• (At least) 4 types of internship syllabi
• Style features suited to your campus

• Welcome Overview (3)
• Buzzfeed Quiz (5)
• Syllabus Types (5)
• Syllabus Features (5)
• Bonus Content Dealing with difficult departments

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http//tinyurl.com/BFIntern
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Career Education/ Professional Development Course

• Internships as professional development.

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Career Education/ Professional Development Course

• Career-readiness focus on campus
• Powerful Career Education Office
• Serving tuition-conscious students
• Room for centralized policies and processes
• Objectives professional experience and
  marketable skills

St. Mary's College in Maryland Example
http//www.smcm.edu/careercenter
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Ethnography/Organizational Behavior Course

• Internships as field study sites.

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Ethnography/Organizational Behavior Course

• Liberal arts ethos on campus
• Curricularly conservative faculty
• Room for centralized policies and processes
• Desire to attach a course to a department
• Objectives organizational behavior knowledge
  and/or ethnographic skills

University of Virginia example
http//www.coopercenter.org/uip
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Placement Discipline Course(s)

• Internships as critical learning spaces for
  majors.

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Placement Discipline Course(s)

• Focus on students earning major credit abroad
• Majors requiring internships
• Curricularly conservative faculty
• Decentralized policies and processes
• Objective connecting theoretical frameworks of a
  discipline to practice

A common model. Arcadias Business
Administration Internship in Sicily
http//studyabroad.arcadia.edu/files/resources/mca
sinlf310s.pdf
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Research Course

• Internships as projects.

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Research Course

• Undergraduate research focus on campus
• Hopes of students earning major credit, but
  capacity doesnt allow for a different internship
  course for each major
• Objective Applying academic research methods to
  a practical work experience an intellectual
  context to the world of work.

Arcadia Universitys model http//studyabroad.arc
adia.edu/find-a-program/internships/ Here is
our London syllabus http//studyabroad.arcadia.ed
u/files/resources/loniinpr310.pdf
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Why internships abroad?
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• Beyond Placements,
• Simplistic Course Design

Learning Outcomes Related to... Syllabus Features To Start With
Content Mastery Lectures, Seminars, Term Papers
Student-generated goals 11 Tutorials
Meaning Making Journals, Reflective Papers, Peer-to-Peer Debriefing
Research Skills Term Papers
Communication Skills Presentations, Memos
Job Search Readiness Interviews, Resumes
Learning by doing Iterative Process

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The Point

• Many more than one strong option for amplifying
  maximizing the learning inherent in an internship
  so that students may earn credit.
• Pitch the academic framework
• that suits your campus!

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lalondwyanta_at_arcadia.edu
Academic Internship Frameworks
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