CONNECTING WORK EXPERIENCE AND YOUR EDUCATION COURSE FOR SP13 AND SU13
LAS students: here’s a great way to get the most out of your summer internship or work experience and earn academic credit while doing so:
LAS 199 CWE CRN 53280 – Connecting Work Experience and Your Education – 2 credit hours
Course Description: This course connects a work/internship experience with your education in a directed and reflective manner that will help develop your personal, educational, and professional competencies. Students are required to secure a supervised, summer work/internship experience in a career area of interest. In addition to the work/internship experience, students will complete reading and writing assignments, participate in on-line discussions, and create a final portfolio of internship accomplishments.
Taught on-line, LAS 199 will help you:
· Explore a career field of interest through your internship experience;
· Apply knowledge learned in the classroom and through your LAS education in a workplace environment;
· Identify personal values, interests, and skills and relate them to your internship experience and work environments;
· Develop communication, problem solving, and networking skills in the workplace;
· Analyze work environments and cultures to optimize success;
· Evaluate the internship experience as a springboard to future success;
· Develop educational and career goals as a result of the internship experience.
Prerequisite: Students must secure a work/internship experience by April 13 that includes a minimum of 8 hours of work per week for at least 6-8 weeks during the summer. The Career Center provides assistance in identifying and searching internship options, if needed.
A description of the work/internship experience, learning objectives, work activities, and contact information for a supervisor must be submitted to instructors by April 13, 2014.
The internship must:
· Be supervised – you must have a designated supervisor that meets with you weekly
· Have a learning or training component—you should not be doing busy work
· Include a project in which you have responsibility for starting and finishing and which contributes to the organization
· Further your understanding of a career field or build on coursework you have taken
· Increase your employability in a field of interest by enhancing skills
Restricted to LAS and DGS students with sophomore, junior, or senior class standing
Section CWE meets online from 6:00 PM – 8:30 PM three times during the spring semester and six times during the summer:
Meeting Dates:April 8, April 22, May 6, May 27, June 3, June 17, July 1, July 15 and July 29.
Key Dates and Deadlines:
April 13: Work/Internship experience must be secured and instructors notified
April 18: Last day to drop class without a grade of W
If you have questions regarding the course, please contact Katie Kennealy at kennealy@illinois.edu or 217-244-4438.
PLEASE NOTE: We are offering a summer version of this course for students whose internship requires them to be enrolled concurrently for liability/insurance purposes: SU13 section CWE, CRN 34087. Please understand signing up for the summer section of this course means you will be charged regular summer tuition. Check with your internship provider to see if you must be enrolled concurrently. Registration for this course will begin on April 1. As with the second eight-week version, this course will feature several pre-experience meetings. Meeting dates will be: May 21, May 27, June 3, June 17, July 1, July 15 and July 29.
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