Internships
Course Description and Number
21:988:425 Women's Studies Internship (3 credits) (Recommended for the major and minor in Women's Studies). This course permits students to take academic work into an activist arena on the campus and/or in the wider community.
Course Requirements
1) The student must arrange to work on a volunteer basis at at company, organization, agency or other entity in which he/she will carry out meaningful women-centered activities.
2) The student should work from 10 to 15 hours per week throughout the semester of the internship, and he/she should keep an acurate log of his/her hours. The student will also keep a journal in which he/she records the activities in which he/she has been engaged.
3) At the end of the semester, the student will submit a paper (at least 5-7 pages in length) describing the work he/she has done, what he/she has learned, and how this experience has related to the academic work he/she had done in his/her Women's Studies classes.
4) The student must provide his/her advisor (Director of the Women's Studies Program) with the name and phone number of the person to whom he/she is reporting in his/her internship, and he/she must keep the advisor informed as to his/her progress.
Director: Professor Sherri-Ann Butterfield
Women's Studies Program
419 Conklin Hall
175 University Ave
Newark, NJ 07102
973.353.1026
