Interns conduct research, do translations attend plenary sessions, committee and party meetings, and deal with correspondence and press work. Politics interns do not need to be political science majors, but should have a background in German politics and good spoken and written German skills. They are open to students of all backgrounds and majors. The range of available art specialities is very wide, including, for example, modern, women's, sacred and medieval, Roman Germanic and applied art, anthropology, archaeology, and photography. Detailed knowledge or specific interest in a particular field should be noted in a cover letter to the application.
Placements are also available in theater companies and with orchestras.
Students work as assistants and participate in all aspects of planning administration, production and publicity. Client groups to choose from include distressed and battered women, families, children, and adolescents in therapy, the elderly, substance abusers, and refugees. Placements also exist in a public relations firms promoting services and products. Your Northern transcript will reflect when and where you studied, all the courses you took, the letter grades earned and the credit awarded. The successful completion of the internship will provide 6 semester hours of credit and the two required courses will provide 3 hours of semester credit each.