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Student
internships (or senior research projects) are required of every
student in Environmental Studies.
Internships offer experiences that are not available in
the traditional classroom setting.
Each
internship involves off-campus work with a participating public
agency, public interest group, or industry, combined with
academic work under a UNCA faculty member.
The intern must have junior or senior (preferred)
standing and permission of the internship program director.
The student will register for ENVR 490, Internship,
during the semester or summer in which the project takes place.
Students are responsible for finding an internship
(hopefully suited to their academic or career goals).
The
student will develop a contract which describes the nature of
the internship project, to be approved by the sponsoring
cooperator from the agency or industry, and by the internship
director. The
contract describes the purpose and duration of the internship. An internship should not begin until a contract is approved by the
internship director. Internships frequently run past the normal end of a semester.
If so, a student intern is eligible to take an "in
progress" (IP) until the project is finished.
All internships require a minimum of 135 work hours.
The
sponsoring agency is asked to complete an Internship Progress
Report at mid-semester and at the end of the semester.
At the end of the project each intern will submit a
summary written paper and make an oral presentation describing
the accomplishments of the internship.
The exact nature of the paper/presentation will be
determined by the nature of the internship project.
A grade for academic credit will be assigned by the
internship director, incorporating feedback from the sponsoring
agency. The progress reports and the evaluation of the paper and
presentation will constitute the key elements in determining the
grade.
Program
Description (MS Word document)
Sample
Contract (MS Word document)
Progress
Report (MS Word document)
Asheville
Area Internships (MS Word document)
North
Carolina Internships (MS Word document)
United
States Internships (MS Word document)
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