Internship Seminar: Experiential Learning through Service and Professional Opportunities

Catalog description

This class is designed to offer real time engagement in the professional life of Madrid. Service work, including volunteering with NGOs and nonprofits, and professional opportunities at companies and institutions ranging from architecture, to publishing, sustainability and to business, serves as the foundation for an experiential learning approach to optimize self-awareness and intercultural competency development. A student-centered approach helps to connect concrete experience with abstract concepts chosen from the students' individual and collective interest areas. Possibilities may include learning about the Spanish educational, social services, migration, entrepreneurship, and business systems. Students develop goals, meet challenges, develop language skills, and acquire a global perspective on today's issues. The course is structured around lecture-workshops, participant observation reflection through field-notes, and individual debriefing meetings with the professor. Requirements include an oral presentation and a final paper based on field experiences and academic research. Prerequisite: completion of SPANLANG 11 or 21B within two quarters (six months) of arriving in Madrid or completion of 12 or 22B, or equivalent placement. Limited enrollment