This academic credit can be applied toward completion of both a Politics major and minor. The Politics Department also likes to encourage students to move beyond the confines of the local community to pursue internship opportunities. The Assembly of the State of New York offers one of the most comprehensive and well-respected internship programs in the United States. Assembly Internships involve a semester's long commitment in Albany. They are competitive and also paid.
Students apply for the internships early in the fall semester for participation in the spring.
Ithaca College also recently began it's own Washington Semester Program. Again, students are required to spend a semester in Washington, D.C., and are given access to all the resources that the city has to offer. Students interested in this program should contact Professor Marty Brownstein.