Internships

Applications for Internships and Independent Studies planned for Spring 2009 are due Tuesday, November 18 to Lee McGaan at lee@monm.edu

A student who will have at least 59 semester hours by the time of the internship (and who has completed a substantial part of the CATA major) should submit an application for internship by the established deadline (see above) during of the semester preceding the desired internship.

Currently, applications should be sent to Prof. Lee McGaan electronically. The CATA faculty will review the application and notify the student of their decision before the end of the semester. The application process results in the approval of a student as eligible for a CATA sponsored internship. It is not approval of the particular internship itself.

Thus students are encouraged to apply for an internship even if they do not yet have a clear idea of where or what the internship may be. CATA faculty are always willing to assist students in beginning a search for internship sites and they may be a useful source of leads. You may find it useful to examine the list of recent CATA Internships.r IIf

[In completing the application sections that ask you to list skills of potential interest to an internship site and asking you to describe your learning goals for the internship, you may find the "List of Skills Often Developed by CATA Majors" a useful document to review and use for generating ideas about goals.]

If you are searching for a communication or media internship off-campus, we have an Internship Search page of useful links that may help you find just what you are looking for.  Theatre students looking for internships or audition information have a Theatre search page as wellOr talk to any CATA faculty member.

Evaluation of internships will follow general guidelines, despite the unique nature of individual programs. These guidelines include:

• Completing an internship contract with your internship site supervisor and your internship faculty sponsor. This contract should be completed within ten days of beginning the internship and submitted to the internship coordinator (with signed copies to the site supervisor and faculty sponsor).

• Keeping a journal (log) of daily activities and hours on-site

• Holding periodic meetings with the faculty sponsor as defined in the contract

• Submitting a portfolio of created/finished activities to the faculty sponsor after completion of the internship.

• Submitting a self evaluation based on the internship experience

• Obtaining a written evaluation from the on-site internship advisor using the CATA Internship Evaluation form

For further information regarding internships, contact Prof. Lee McGaan, Internship Coordinator and Chair.