Community Internship Program – Seminar Topics
Students earn college credit for their internship through a three-credit course cross-listed in Sociology (SO 392), Criminal Justice (CJ 392), Gerontology (GT 392), and Women’s and Gender Studies (WGS 392).
In addition to working at a community-based organization, students attend a weekly seminar to reflect on their experiences, provide mutual support, and discuss the following career-related topics:
- Workplace Risk and Safety
- Getting the Most out of Seminar
- The Community
- Organizational Culture
- Context, Environment, Systemic Social Structures
- Understanding Your Role as an Intern
- Establishing Benchmarks and Evaluation
- Experiential Learning: Theory to Practice
- Organizational Structure and Culture
- Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
- Utilizing Research and Evaluation
- Professional Ethics
- Culmination, Synthesis and Endings
