Course Syllabus
Instructor: Dr. Jenny Whitcher, MASC Director & Director of Service Learning
E-mail: jwhitcher@iliff.edu
Office Hours: By appointment, please email your availability.
Course Synopsis: The purpose of this course is to further personal and professional formation. This is primarily accomplished through critical reflection on and consultation about your internship experience with peers and faculty within the seminar setting.
As a requirement of a professional degree, MASC students complete an internship over the summer term. Students may choose to start their internship prior to the summer term, or extend their internship into the fall term; however, the majority of the 300 intern hours must be completed during the summer.
During summer internship, MASC students concurrently enroll in IST4003 MASC Internship Seminar, a hybrid course, which meets for two-day weekend praxes at both the beginning and end of the summer, and online throughout the summer. The hybrid structure of the MASC Internship Seminar allows students to pursue Denver-based, as well as, non-Denver domestic and/or international internship opportunities.
Course Structure:
Praxis 1: Internship Preparation [on campus]
Friday, June 13, 2013, 1 pm - 4:30 pm
Saturday, June 14, 2013, 9 am - 4:30 pm
Online: Achieving Internship Learning Goals
10 weeks: June 16 – Aug 21
Praxis 2: Internship Evaluation and Employment Preparation [on-campus]
Friday, August 22, 2013, 1 pm - 4:30 pm
Saturday, August 23, 2013, 9 am - 4:30 pm
Course Objective & Learning Goals
Reading & Media: All reading and media are accessible online via open source weblinks or downloadable pdf, and are embedded within each weekly Canvas course assignment. The primary text for Internship Seminar is your community-based experiences, therefore weekly readings and media are not as lengthy as in a typical graduate seminar. Instead, readings and media aim to create common space for individual and collective reflection on weekly themes and community-based internship experiences.
Assignments:
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