DSOC 4200

CALS NYS Internship Program Preparation and Community Orientation

Course Description

Course information provided by the 2014-2015 Catalog.

This spring semester course is specifically for CALS students accepted into the CALS NYS Internship Program for the following summer. The class is designed to prepare interns for their summer work and community engagement project by providing detailed, in-class work sessions, coupled with out-of-class assignments, that will result in students developing learning action plans, socio-demographic profiles of their host community, region, and host organization, as well as organizing the first phase of their community development project. Classes will be held in a seminar setting and require each student to use a computer. Please notify the instructor if you require a computer. Course will run the last 8 weeks of the spring semester and, in addition, include a field trip to student's internship host community, a meeting with all internship hosts (on campus or via-phone conference), and up to two additional 75 minute classes, if needed to finalize preparations for summer internship.

Permission Note Enrollment limited to: CALS students who have successfully applied (i.e., been accepted) to the CALS NYS Internship Program for the following summer.

Outcomes

• Understand Community Development as a concept and practice and successfully begin to apply skills in a community setting.
• Develop new skills and learn new on-line tools for accessing, interpreting and analyzing sectoral data and other resources to develop internship host organizational profile.
• Access, interpret, and critically analyze socio-demographic data and other resources about host community. Create community profile. Integrate all gathered data into one broad regional profile.
• Link data to host-community project with focus on attracting and retaining young professionals to region. This information will set stage for summer internship and community engagement project.
• Work with host contacts and supervisors, as well as independently, to set goals for summer internship work with host organization and develop a learning action plan.
• Contact community members identified as community development project partners, and outline phases of community development project to be completed during summer.

When Offered Spring. (Second eight weeks)

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