Interdisciplinary Internship

Catalog description

This course offers a field-based learning experience that addresses issues and questions spanning several disciplines. An interdisciplinary internship provides a workplace opportunity that integrates different business disciplines, or even cuts across the conventional boundaries of business and the arts and sciences. This kind of internship reflects the type of integrative, collaborative and multidisciplinary activities that students are likely to experience in the workplace. Students are required to spend a minimum of 15 hours a week at a designated workplace, submit an experiential report at the end of the term, attend required workshops through the Center for Career Services, receive an evaluation of their work from an on-site supervisor, and meet all other requirements stipulated in the course syllabus. Students may earn three credits for ID 421 , which may be applied to the major with authorization from the major department.