Field Experience
EDU S997
Subject & Catalog Number
Course Information
Description
Field experiences/ internships provide many benefits to complement your academic courses. They offer opportunities to:
• Gain real world experience
• Graduate with a degree, a resume, and typically a good job
• Network with professionals in the field
• Connect your coursework with actual practice
• Learn with a supervisor/mentor
• Enhance your resume with both academic and work experience
• Build transferable professional skills
• Gain professional feedback
• Boost your confidence
• Get firsthand experience
• Test your interest in particular fields
• Learn about a field or career
• Try new things
Completing an internship for credit (Field Experience) is a way for you to explore specific learning goals within the context of an organization. Two or four credit options are available. Students earning 4 credits are expected to commit 10-12 hours per week for a full semester. Students earning two credits are expected to commit 10-12 hours a week for a half semester. A learning contract is developed between the student and a site supervisor and approved and assessed by the faculty advisor.
There will be four class meetings per semester from 7:30 AM to 8:30 AM as posted on Canvas.
Class Notes
This course meets as a group on the first Tuesday of every month from 7:30-8:30am.
Available for Harvard Cross Registration
This course is appropriate for HGSE students in internships (other than those required for licensure) who would like to hone the reflective skills and habits of mind that are necessary for immediate and on-going professional growth. The course asks students to examine how their personal assumptions, expectations, and beliefs about their internships’ professions and organizations influence how they experience working in novel contexts as well as how they can use such reflection to enhance their current and future professional development.
