Nov 23, 2024
OHIO University Undergraduate Catalog 2024-25
WGSS 4910 - Internship in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
This course provides students with credit for internship experiences for WGSS majors, WGSS Certificate students and LGBTQ Certificate students. Students have the opportunity to apply material regarding gender, sexuality, and feminism in the context of work relating to the women’s, feminist, or LGBTQ organizing; feminist practice; and in many applied and allied occupational fields (including law, medicine, social services, non-profit, and other fields). The internship is supervised by WGSS faculty and evaluated by an on-the-job supervisor. The internship experience varies according to the interests of the students and the needs of the sponsoring organization.
Requisites: Permission and Jr or Sr and 6 hrs in WGSS
Credit Hours: 1 - 12
OHIO BRICKS: Bridge: Learning and Doing
Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken two times excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 2.0 internship
Grades: Eligible Grades: A-F,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I
Learning Outcomes:
- Students will be able to connect professional experience to their academic knowledge of WGSS broadly.
- Students will be able identify how gender theory and feminist practice are related to one another in the context of their professional experience.
- Students will be able to adapt and apply skills, theories, or methodologies associated with the discipline of WGSS to problem solving in a professional context.
- Students will be able to communicate knowledge regarding gender, sexuality, and feminism in professional contexts.
- Students will be able to describe their professional experience in the areas of women’s/feminist/LGBTQ organizing or in applied and allied occupational fields using a format, language, or visual representation in ways that enhance meaning.
- Students will be able to demonstrate a developing sense of self as a learner and reflect on how their professional experience with women’s/feminist/LGBTQ organizing or in applied and allied occupational fields prepared them for future challenges.
- Students will be able to identify career opportunities in women’s/feminist/LGBTQ organizing, or in applied and allied occupational fields, that will enable them to apply their practical skills gained from the internship experience.
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