Women Studies

Women Studies internships provide students with the opportunity for hands-on application of the research and theories they've studied in their classes. For a 3-credit internship, students volunteer 10 hours per week for a term in an organization whose work benefits women. Many of our students work with the Center Against Rape and Domestic Violence (link to their site), the OSU Women's Center (link), and Calyx (link) here in Corvallis. Some work as teaching assistants for Women Studies classes. Other students complete their internships in feminist agencies around the country and the world. For many students, the internship is a path to a career. For others, it is an experience that helps them develop valuable skills that they are able to use in whatever work they choose.

WS 4/510 Internship

Gilkey 200
541-737-2826
womenstudies@oregonstate.edu

The internship experience provides the opportunity to gain experience within an off-campus private, public, or community agency or organization which has as one of its goals the improvement of the status of women in society. Students work with an on-site mentor who guides their field experience in collaboration with the internship coordinator in the WS program.

Internships may be taken for 1-12 credits. A typical 3-credit internship requires 100 hours of work in the internship agency or organization.

COURSE OBJECTIVES

As a result of having completed this internship, students will:

• Be able to apply feminist theories in organizational settings
• Develop skills in feminist organizing
• Develop professional relationships in feminist settings
• Be able to assess the effectiveness of work in feminist organizations
  

Each student will also develop individual, personal objectives for the internship in consultation with the on-site supervisor.

STATEMENT REGARDING STUDENTS WITH DISABILITIES

Accommodations are collaborative efforts between students, faculty and Services for Students with Disabilities (SSD). Students with accommodations approved through SSD are responsible for contacting the faculty member in charge of the course prior to or during the first week of the term to discuss accommodations. Students who believe they are eligible for accommodations but who have not yet obtained approval through SSD should contact SSD immediately at 737-4098.

STATEMENT ON ACADEMIC DISHONESTY

Many students do not understand what academic dishonesty is. It is important to become familiar with its different forms and the University's definitions.

At Oregon State University academic dishonesty is defined by the Oregon Administrative Rules 576-015-0020.1.a-c as: An intentional act of deception in which a student seeks to claim credit for the work or effort of another person or uses unauthorized materials or fabricated information in any academic work. Academic dishonesty includes:

• CHEATING - use or attempted use of unauthorized materials, information or study aids or an act of deceit by which a student attempts to misrepresent mastery of academic effort or information. This includes unauthorized copying or collaboration on a test or assignment or using prohibited materials and texts.
• FABRICATION - falsification or invention of any information (including falsifying research, inventing or exaggerating data and listing incorrect or fictitious references.
• ASSISTING - helping another commit an act of academic dishonesty. This includes paying or bribing someone to acquire a test or assignment, changing someone's grades or academic records, or taking a test/doing an assignment for someone else (or allowing someone to do these things for you). It is a violation of Oregon state law to create and offer to sell part or all of an education assignment to another person (ORS 165.114).
• TAMPERING - altering or interfering with evaluation instruments and documents.
• PLAGIARISM - representing the word or ideas of another person as one's own OR presenting someone else's words, ideas, artistry or data as one's own. This includes copying another person's work (including unpublished material) without appropriate referencing, presenting someone else's opinions and theories as one's own, or working jointly on a project, then submitting it as one's own.

Academic dishonesty cases are handled initially by the academic units (collection of evidence and documentation of incident, meeting with student regarding the situation, determination of responsibility and academic penalty) but will also be referred to the Student Conduct Coordinator for action under the rules. For more information on expectations for student conduct, see http://oregonstate.edu/admin/stucon/achon.htm.

COURSE ASSIGNMENTS

1. Internship Agreement

Each student will work with an on-site supervisor to complete side 1 of the internship agreement form. A copy of the completed form must be sent to the instructor by the end of Week 1. At the end of the internship, the on-site supervisor will complete side 2 of the internship agreement form. The original form must be sent to the instructor by the end of exam week.

2. Journal

Each student will keep a journal of the internship experience. The journal must include an entry for each occasion the student participates in the internship. Journal entries should include the date, the number of hours spent working in the internship during the occasion, and the tasks completed that day. The remainder of the journal should be a 1-2 page reflection on what the student learned during the experiences of that day of the internship.

The journal should be turned in with the internship agreement by the end of exam week.

GRADING

The internship is graded on a pass/fail basis. To pass the internship, each student must complete 100 hours of internship experience, the internship agreement form, and a thorough internship journal.