Internships

Applications for Internships and Independent Studies planned for Spring 2010 are due by December 1 to Professor 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 COMM 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 COMM 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 COMM 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. COMM 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 past COMM Internships.

[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 COMM 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.  Or talk to any COMM 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 COMM Internship Activities Log) of daily activities and hours on-site and off.

• 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 COMM Internship Evaluation form

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