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Graduate Internships
You will earn the 4 or 8
credit hours of internship experience by enrolling either once or twice in
English L590, Internship in English. (8 credit hours will be given only in
special circumstances) This internship will be a supervised experience in
the uses of language in a workplace, such as a company, a governmental
agency, a nonprofit organization, or an educational institution (IUPUI or
another). Your internship experience should be integrally related to your MA
course work and/or your thesis topic. Each 4-credit internship will normally
require 150 hours in the workplace (for example, 10 hours a week for a
15-week semester). You may do an internship in your current workplace, but
the work you do for your internship cannot be a part of your regular job.
Internships may be paid
or unpaid; if paid, they may be supported by either university funding or
external funding.
To locate an internship,
you may do any of the following:
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Seek advice from your
Program Committee, the Director of Graduate Studies, or other faculty
members.
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Register with the
Professional Practice Program (2010 Business/SPEA) and review their files
of available internships.
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Develop your own
proposed internship, within your present workplace or others you know
about.
To enroll for
internship credit, you must have the approval of your Program
Committee and the Director of Graduate Studies. An
internship agreement form is included in this guide. In your
internship you must conduct research and use its results, as well
as your theoretical knowledge, to solve a problem or complete a
task. As your internship proceeds, you should communicate regularly
with your Program Committee chair.
At the end of your
internship, you must submit a portfolio of workplace writing and a report on
your experience to your Program Committee chair, who will then recommend a
grade for the internship.
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