The purpose of this internship is for students to spend an entire semester applying and refining their academic and field training in a real-world, professional setting.  This internship experience involves not only the actual experience, but reflecting on and learning from the experience through related assignments.  This is a final, capstone experience, similar to a student-teaching experience for those preparing to become classroom teachers.  Internships are worth 12 credits and carry an equivalent workload of 40 hours/week for 15 weeks (600 hours).  Internships should be completed within a single semester.  Your internship will typically be your last semester of the program.

1.  Planning your Internship

2.  Registering for your Internship:  After submitting the signed original plus three copies of the "Agreement of Affiliation" to your advisor, you will be given a permission number to register for your internship.  You need to register for all credits for the term that you are actually doing your internship.  If you internship will be in a site further than 75 miles from Duluth, ask your advisor for a Request for Waiver of Student Service Fee.

3.  Professional Expectations during your Internship

4.  Assignments during your Internship

5.  Grading:  Internships are currently graded as pass/no-pass.  NOTE:  Failure to submit completed work according to the timeline specified with each assignment (with the last due date being the end of Week 15) will result in a "no-

pass" grade; you will be required to repeat your internship if you receive a "no-pass" grade!

*Work has been posted with the generous permission of the students

Patrick Hair, Glacier National Park

     Program Outlines:  Goodbye Glaciers  and Nighttime Sounds

     Research Project:  Analysis of Informal Visitor Contacts

     Synthesis/Reflection Paper