Internships for Academic Credit (UWP 92, 192, 197T & 197TC)

An Internship is a temporary work-learn arrangement that enables enrolled UCD undergraduate or graduate students to earn academic credit while exploring their potential career paths, gaining practical skills, and/or making professional contacts.  Interns may work on or off campus, with appropriate publications, campus units or departments, schools, public agencies, nonprofit organizations, or private corporations. Grading is on a P/NP basis.

Deadlines for 2009-2010
FALL 2009

• Internship registration:  by Friday, October 9th         
• Progress Report/Consultation with Faculty Advisor:  by October 28th
• Portfolio submission:  by Friday, December 4th  

WINTER 2010

• Internship registration:  by Wednesday, January 20th
• Progress Report/Consultation with Faculty Advisor:  by February 5th 
• Portfolio submission:  by Monday, March 15th

SPRING 2010

• Internship registration:  by Tuesday, April 13th
• Progress Report/Consultation with Faculty Advisor:  by April 30th
• Portfolio submission:  by Thursday, June 3rd

SUMMER SESSION I

• Internship registration:  by Wednesday, June 30th
• Progress Report/Consultation with Faculty Advisor:  by July 9th
• Portfolio submission:  by Friday, July 30th

SUMMER SESSION II

• Internship registration:  by Wednesday, August 11th
• Progress Report/Consultation with Faculty Advisor:  August 20th
• Portfolio submission:  by Friday, September 10th

The University Writing Program (UWP) offers two kinds of internships: Writing Ambassadors and Writing Interns.

Writing Ambassadors

Writing Ambassadors are students from all majors who work as interns in K-12 schools, helping teachers to use reading and writing as learning tools in all subjects.  The program offers placement in schools, and students receive training and credit by taking UWP 197TC: Tutoring in the Community, which can be approved for up to 4 units and repeated for up to 10 units (subject to college internship unit limits).  The course meets once a week to discuss teaching strategies and experiences. Students interested in teaching math and science may simultaneously take EDU 197T, which offers 1 additional unit. Consult the Writing Ambassadors program website at http://writingambassadors.ucdavis.edu/ for more information and contact Pamela Major, Director of the Writing Ambassadors Program.

UWP Writing Interns

Writing Interns are students from all majors who work as interns doing substantial expository writing and/or editing, including writing marketing copy (flyers or press releases); writing, layout, or editing for a newspaper or magazine (campus examples include The California Aggie or UCDavis Magazine); drafting brochures, funding proposals, policy statements, position papers, or other informative documents for public and private agencies.  Work that does not involve the production of finished text, such as research or administrative assistance, is not appropriate for UWP internship credit.

Although the UWP does not place students in writing internships, the Internship and Career Center (ICC) maintains a list on their web site of Aggie Jobs (https://iccweb.ucdavis.edu/index.htm) and students may also arrange their own positions.  Most internships are unpaid, although in rare cases interns may earn stipends for hours worked and/or be reimbursed for travel or other expenses.

Most writing internships are approved for 2-5 units per quarter, but some full-time internships are available, both in and outside the Davis area. Depending on the hours worked, Writing Interns may take 1-12 units in accord with the Academic Senate Guidelines for Awarding Academic Credit for Internships—UC Davis.  Full-time internships (12 units) entail a 40-hour week, so no other classes may be taken concurrently.

To Receive Academic Credit for Your Writing Internship

1. Arrange an internship, through your own contacts or with the help of the Writing Minor and Internship Faculty Advisor, Gary Sue Goodman, an ICC Coordinator. (The internship supervisor may require an interview and/or submission of a writing sample.)


2. Complete your parts of the two-sided form Request for Approval of Internship for Academic Credit.


3. Submit the completed form to the Writing Minor and Internship Faculty Advisor, Gary Sue Goodman, to confirm that your proposed internship is appropriate for UWP academic credit, to get your form signed, and to receive the appropriate CRN#.


4.  Register by SISWEB for the internship units.   This will appear on your transcript as “UWP 92 or 192 Writing Internship.”


5. If you want more specific notation of the type of internship on your transcript (say, “Journalism,” “Public Relations Writing,” or Legal Writing”), acquire from ICC the    Internship Transcript Notation Form, complete it, get it signed, and submit to ICC with a copy of your signed Request for Approval of Internship for Academic Credit.  
   

6. Schedule a mid-quarter interview with the Writing Minor and Internship Faculty Advisor, Gary Sue Goodman, to show and discuss your work in progress.


7. By the portfolio submission deadline ,submit a portfolio to the Writing Minor and Internship Faculty Advisor, Gary Sue Goodman.  This will includes a 3- to 5-page essay evaluating the internship, a portfolio of the written work or clippings completed during the internship, a log of hours worked, and a signed 1/2-1 page supervisor’s evaluation.


8. Your evaluative essay (which you will submit also to ICC if you want transcript notation) should include:
• Discussion of your activities, assignments, and/or significant writing or editing projects
• Report of the skills and abilities applied, improved, and/or acquired through the internship
• Summary of your overall learning outcomes: the value of the experience and how it may advance your future academic and/or career goals
• Evaluation of how well your expectations and those of your supervisor were met and why.

There are no provisions for late adds or retroactive credit, so you just strictly observe the registration deadline. To receive credit for an internship continuing over more than one quarter, you must repeat this process each quarter.  Check with your department’s undergraduate advisor about limits on internship units.

Contacts

UWP Writing Minor and Internship Faculty Advisor: Dr. Gary Sue Goodman
383 Voorhies Hall / 752-4947

Writing Ambassadors Coordinator: Dr. Pamela Major
377 Voorhies Hall / 754-9817

UCD Internship and Career Center Coordinators: Amy Strayer and Kay Nelson
2nd Floor, South Hall/752-6673