The students' final evaluation paper encourages them to summarize what they have learned about themselves, their career goals, and their academic training. Students are required to keep a journal which is used to help integrate the academic with experiential. Journals are used to record daily work, detail of tasks completed, summarize meetings attended, in addition to writing thoughts, feelings, insights, and questions. The journal is read only by the Program Coordinator. We think it is important for students to write about their work in an attempt to better understand it, however, all interns are instructed in the issue of confidentiality and we trust that this is reinforced within each particular placement.
All interns participate in a weekly three-hour seminar.
Although the internship and seminar are both integral parts of the Internship Program, they are two separate courses which are graded separately and given different, though related, assignments. Each student spends time throughout the semester working on a research project which has significance to women in general and to the intern in particular. The topic, selected by the student, may or may not be specially related to the field placement. However,in no case is it to be merely a duplication of the field work project. Since only juniors and seniors are admitted to Women's Semester, most interns have at least some academic training in the area of their field placements.