After receiving approval for an internship from the coordinator in the Management Department and from the appropriate person in Career Planning and Placement, a student has three major responsibilities to complete in order to receive credit and a grade for the internship.

Throughout the course of the internship relationship, students are required to keep a daily journal. This is similar to a diary and is used to help the student describe the tasks and directions they receive as they proceed through the internship process. It is also used to record the feelings, excitement and frustrations that are often a part of any working relationship. A few weeks into the internship, the student will be asked to bring the journal to the office of the professor who is monitoring the academic part of the internship.

As indicated above, the student periodically needs to meet with his/her Professor to insure that the internship is a good learning experience for the student and a positive experience for the employer. After a few weeks on the job, and after a review of the journal by the professor, the student and the professor will meet. Together they will choose a topic, related to the student’s internship work experience, which will be researched by the student. It will eventually become the term paper, which is the major academic component of the internship experience.

This paper will be an academically oriented research assignment that will link the knowledge which the student has received during the internship with Management theory. The professor will guide the student to appropriate sources and will expect periodic updates of the student’s progress, including an outline of the paper, and on occasion, a draft version of the paper. The final paper will be a very important component in assigning the student’s final grade for the internship.

For more information concerning the internships in the Management Department, please contact Marianne Gauss, Assistant Professor in College Hall 407A or by phone at 951-1677.