Division of Liberal Arts and Sciences
Department of English, Foreign Languages, Journalism
Summer 2001
Meetings are arranged
Dr. Jane Frick, professor
Email: frick@griffon.mwsc.edu
http://www.missouriwestern.edu/eflj/faculty/frick.asp
SS/C 201A
271-4315 (MWSC)
232-3695 (home)
Office Hours: By
appointment
ENG, ETC, JOU 316 Internship in English, English Technical
Communications, or Journalism
Required Procedures:
Students must complete an internship application
prior to enrolling in the course. Upon obtaining placement, the student
and agency supervisor must complete an
internship contract
listing the number of
hours to be worked and work objectives to be accomplished during the
semester. The signed contract also lists the grading criteria for the
internship. At midterm time, the supervisor completes a midterm
evaluation form regarding his/her intern. The evaluation form is returned
by the intern to the internship coordinator. At the end of the semester,
the supervisor completes a final evaluation form. The intern completes a
report or prepares a portfolio about his/her internship.
Course Objectives:
This course provides students with the practical application of skills in
reading, writing, journalism, public relations, and/or technical
communications at a business concern or agency. The internship
correlates academic preparation with professionally supervised work
experience (thirty clock hours for each hour of credit). Work objectives
will be listed on the Internship Contract and signed by
the intern, the intern's supervisor, and the Internship Coordinator.
Course Requirements:
1. Attendance is mandatory. If you do not complete the hours
required as stipulated in the internship contract, you will fail the
course.
2. Office hours: Feel free to contact
me if you need assistance. I am always
glad to meet with students and/or consult via email.
3. Academic Honesty: Work submitted under your name should be
your work. You should clearly identify your duties/responsibilities for
any collaborative projects submitted in your internship portfolio. If you
deviate from standard style practices (AP, MLA, APA = whatever your
agency/supervisor uses), please explain why you have done so.
4. Student Disability: Students with disabilities (impaired
hearing, vision, reading disorders, etc.,) should notify me in writing of
their disability on the internship application. I will work out a course
of studies/placement for such students.
5. Grading Policy: Your grade for the course will be determined in
this manner:
A
- successful completion of work objectives
- excellent and good ratings by the supervisor in the final evaluation
- well-written final report or portfolio
- completion of contracted work hours
B
- completion of work objectives
- good and average ratings by the supervisor in the final evaluation
- well-written final report or portfolio
- completion of contracted work hours
C-D
- partial completion of work objectives
- average/poor ratings by the supervisor in the final evaluation
- final report or portfolio has writing deficiencies
- completion of contracted work hours
F - failure to complete
contracted work hours and/or supervisor'
s evaluation and/or final report or portfolio