The department will attempt to facilitate any reasonable internship in Atlanta and, if plausible, in other places as well. The political science internship program provides students with an opportunity to combine academic training with field experience. The program stresses the interdependence of the University and the community. Currently, the Department of Political Science places student interns in a wide variety of agencies and offices in state and local government. The students usually serve in a research capacity for the assigned agency.
Every attempt is made to match students' interests with agency needs.
Students attend seminars to discuss the work they are doing and to relate it to academic studies and findings. Depending upon the nature of the internship, up to twelve credit hours in Political Science 494 and Political Science 496 may be awarded for a departmentally approved internship.