Academic Internship Program - UCSD

Partnering with AIP

The Academic Internship Program regularly collaborates with faculty and departments to provide students with experiential learning opportunities and connections to the professional community. If you or your department is designing a project that we can assist with, please contact AIP. Below are examples of previous partnerships and programs.

Course Fieldwork Experience
Professional Panels
Career/Internship Workshops
Special Programs and Projects

Course Fieldwork Experience - AIP assists with incorporating practical fieldwork components into course syllabi and awards academic credit to participating students. Students can then apply classroom theory to outside settings.

• COSF 134 - Communication, Politics &Citizen: AIP worked closely with a Communications faculty member to design an experiential component aligned with course objectives. AIP staff placed students in environments related to the course topic of citizenship and civic participation .

• SOC 110A - Qualitative Research in Education: The professor teaching this course wanted students to observe actual educational settings. Therefore, AIP established education fieldwork placements in classrooms where students acted as participant-observers and applied principles studied in the course. Students’ observational research was then incorporated into a final paper.

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Professional Panels - AIP staff has worked with faculty and departmental staff to arrange panels of professionals to speak to groups of students. These panels have allowed students to hear first-hand accounts of the working world from professionals in the field.

• Public Relations Panel: AIP used its community contacts to assist a Communication professor arrange a group of public relations and communications professionals to present during a class time.

• Philosophy Panel: AIP collaborated with staff from the Philosophy department to coordinate a panel featuring various fields of interest to philosophy majors to broaden students’ understanding of different career avenues available to them.

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Career/Internship Workshops - AIP works with departments to plan customized workshops, giving students the opportunity to see different career options, understand the relevance of internships to their academic and career goals, and gather information on using AIP as a tool for testing professional environments. AIP has designed workshops for departments including:

• Philosophy
• Earth Sciences
• Human Development

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Special Programs and Projects:

• University of California Center at Sacramento: Conceived by former UC President Richard Atkinson, the UC Sacramento Center welcomed its first class of 26 students in Winter 2004. The program offers students an internship, research methods course, and electives under the direction of an on site professor/advisor. AIP staff has collaborated with faculty and UC administrators on the development and outreach, and serves as the program’s contact for UCSD students.

• Anne Frank Project: Conceived and directed by Sociology Professor Gershon Shafir, this project allowed student docents to guide and educate visitors through the Anne Frank Exhibit. AIP provided the opportunity for students to receive credit for their internship work and completion of their project based research papers.

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	Partnering with AIP The Academic Internship Program regularly collaborates with faculty and departments to provide students with experiential learning opportunities and connections to the professional community. If you or your department is designing a project that we can assist with, please contact AIP. Below are examples of previous partnerships and programs. Course Fieldwork Experience Professional Panels Career/Internship Workshops Special Programs and Projects Course Fieldwork Experience - AIP assists with incorporating practical fieldwork components into course syllabi and awards academic credit to participating students. Students can then apply classroom theory to outside settings. • COSF 134 - Communication, Politics &Citizen: AIP worked closely with a Communications faculty member to design an experiential component aligned with course objectives. AIP staff placed students in environments related to the course topic of citizenship and civic participation . • SOC 110A - Qualitative Research in Education: The professor teaching this course wanted students to observe actual educational settings. Therefore, AIP established education fieldwork placements in classrooms where students acted as participant-observers and applied principles studied in the course. Students’ observational research was then incorporated into a final paper. Return to top Professional Panels - AIP staff has worked with faculty and departmental staff to arrange panels of professionals to speak to groups of students. These panels have allowed students to hear first-hand accounts of the working world from professionals in the field. • Public Relations Panel: AIP used its community contacts to assist a Communication professor arrange a group of public relations and communications professionals to present during a class time. • Philosophy Panel: AIP collaborated with staff from the Philosophy department to coordinate a panel featuring various fields of interest to philosophy majors to broaden students’ understanding of different career avenues available to them. Return to top Career/Internship Workshops - AIP works with departments to plan customized workshops, giving students the opportunity to see different career options, understand the relevance of internships to their academic and career goals, and gather information on using AIP as a tool for testing professional environments. AIP has designed workshops for departments including: • Philosophy • Earth Sciences • Human Development Return to top Special Programs and Projects: • University of California Center at Sacramento: Conceived by former UC President Richard Atkinson, the UC Sacramento Center welcomed its first class of 26 students in Winter 2004. The program offers students an internship, research methods course, and electives under the direction of an on site professor/advisor. AIP staff has collaborated with faculty and UC administrators on the development and outreach, and serves as the program’s contact for UCSD students. • Anne Frank Project: Conceived and directed by Sociology Professor Gershon Shafir, this project allowed student docents to guide and educate visitors through the Anne Frank Exhibit. AIP provided the opportunity for students to receive credit for their internship work and completion of their project based research papers. Return to top