Community Service Internship

All Global Studies majors must complete a supervised 135 hour community service internship at home or preferably abroad. Students are encouraged to do it abroad, either during a study abroad experience or over a summer. Students may also do a local internship.

The objective and philosophy of the assignment

The intent of this internship is to expose student to social problems that are shared throughout the world, and to give them real experience working with organizations that are attempting to solve those problems.

Students should work with a non-majority culture or lower socio-economic group, preferably using a language other than English. The work should involve direct contact with the clients of the agency and should not be primarily clerical or logistical.

I. Overseas Internships

 

II. Local Internships