Internships & fieldwork
Our department has a long history of experiential learning that dates back to the 1960s. Students need opportunities to engage with community, work with peers, learn from mentors, apply their learning, make mistakes, and gather successes outside of the classroom in the environments they’ll be contributing to throughout their careers.
Overview
Gaining practical experience is one of the most important aspects of your student journey: Doing an internship or fieldwork lets you apply in the field the knowledge and skills acquired during your studies.
All our students have the opportunity to experience fieldwork, which are targeted short-term projects with one of our community partners, and/or a full internship where they take on a more a long-term position (200–560 hours) within an organization.
Undergraduate students
Browse the courses below, then contact the Undergraduate Program Coordinator to verify that you have met the course credit criteria.
Graduate students
Contact our Graduate Program Assistant to verify that you have met the relevant criteria.
Organizations
Interested in hosting student placements? Contact our Internship and Fieldwork Coordinator.
Our internship courses
Undergraduate
This 6-credit internship of 360 hours that is spread across the fall and winter terms.
It provides students with a supervised opportunity to apply learning from the BA Specialization in Human Relations to work with youth and families in a range of settings such as child welfare, schools, non profit organizations, residential care, or outreach. The specific objectives are to teach about planning, education, and intervention in human service work, to promote self reflection as a critical component of ethical practice, and to provide a basis for further career planning and/or graduate work in youth and family practice.
Prerequisites/corequisite:
- The following courses must be completed previously: AHSC 331; AHSC 322 or AHSC 355.
- The following course must be completed previously or concurrently: AHSC 465.
- Students must have completed 60 credits prior to enrolling.
- Permission from the department is required.
This 6-credit internship of 240 hours over the course of the fall term.
This course provides students with an opportunity to design, implement, and evaluate programs; to facilitate groups in a variety of settings; and to establish working relationships with field personnel. In consultation with their supervisors, students select a site related to their learning interests. Students learn to develop and manage their own project and to self assess their work. The course includes fieldwork, seminars, and team meetings.
Prerequisites:
- The following courses must be completed previously: AHSC 361, AHSC 371.
- Students must have completed 60 credits prior to enrolling.
- Permission from the Department is required.