POL SCI 195CE
Community and Corporate Internships in Political Science
Description: Tutorial, to be arranged; fieldwork, eight to 10 hours. Limited to juniors/seniors. Internship in corporate, governmental, or nonprofit setting coordinated through Center for Community Learning. Students complete weekly written assignments, attend biweekly meetings with graduate student coordinator, and write final research paper. Faculty sponsor and graduate student coordinator construct series of reading assignments that examine issues related to internship site. May be repeated for credit with consent of Center for Community Learning. No more than 8 units may be applied toward major; units applied must be taken for letter grade. May not be applied toward concentration or distribution requirements. Individual contract with supervising faculty member required. P/NP or letter grading.
Units: 4.0
Units: 4.0
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Fall 2024 - This class is pretty cool and makes having an internship during the quarter worthwhile. Basically, you meet with a grad student instructor (Alex was mine and he was pretty good) 5 times and you discuss your internship/assignments for the class, which is asynchronous by the way. You actually never meet with the professor. Your grade in the class is based on the following: Attendance and Participation (biweekly meetings) 30% Reading Reflections (7 total) 35% Final Paper 35% You get all your participation points by coming "prepared" to meetings (coming in with 3 or so questions/topics to discuss). The "reading" reflections are easy. You basically have an assignment to do every week. It's usually a 2-3 page paper on something vaguely related to your internship or something related to your final paper. They're pretty much free A's. The final paper is cool. It is on a topic of contention of something related to your internship (example: food insecurity if you work at a non-profit focused on food insecurity). It is 8-10 pages, (which is a lot) and you have to submit it by the Friday of week 10. But, the weekly assignments make the paper much easier as many of them are prep assignments (bibliography, outline, rough draft, etc). Overall, I would take this UD again as it's essentially a free A. Do all of the work and you will be fine.
Fall 2024 - This class is pretty cool and makes having an internship during the quarter worthwhile. Basically, you meet with a grad student instructor (Alex was mine and he was pretty good) 5 times and you discuss your internship/assignments for the class, which is asynchronous by the way. You actually never meet with the professor. Your grade in the class is based on the following: Attendance and Participation (biweekly meetings) 30% Reading Reflections (7 total) 35% Final Paper 35% You get all your participation points by coming "prepared" to meetings (coming in with 3 or so questions/topics to discuss). The "reading" reflections are easy. You basically have an assignment to do every week. It's usually a 2-3 page paper on something vaguely related to your internship or something related to your final paper. They're pretty much free A's. The final paper is cool. It is on a topic of contention of something related to your internship (example: food insecurity if you work at a non-profit focused on food insecurity). It is 8-10 pages, (which is a lot) and you have to submit it by the Friday of week 10. But, the weekly assignments make the paper much easier as many of them are prep assignments (bibliography, outline, rough draft, etc). Overall, I would take this UD again as it's essentially a free A. Do all of the work and you will be fine.
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