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Programs: Internships - Eligibility

CPGC summer internships are part of an integrated learning experience. Those who have been awarded internships are required to participate in a series of pre-departure orientation sessions, culminating in an off-campus weekend to discuss health, safety and cross-cultural concerns. Upon their return to Haverford, all interns are required to enroll in a fall-semester class designed to place social justice work in historical, cultural and political perspective.

Details and Eligibility

CPGC summer internships are ideally 8 to 10 weeks in duration, usually scheduled from early June until mid-August.  Interns are expected to work full-time (35-40 hours per week) for their host organizations. Interns receive an expenses budget tailored to their specific project, plus roundtrip airfare to their destination and all necessary vaccinations. Students on financial aid who have a summer earnings contribution may apply to the CPGC for additional funds to cover their contribution. Students from all majors are encouraged to apply.

• Every international and domestic intern will be required to attend a weekend-long orientation. This year that orientation will be held the weekend of April 9, 2010.
  
  
• Students may either apply for domestic or international internships with our organizational partners or work with their professors and our program coordinators to find their own agency hosts. 
  
  
• Deadline for Self-Designed, Summer Research, Continuing Connections and Senior Bridge summer internship applications is February 29, 2010 at 11:59 p.m. 

Upon their return to Haverford, all interns are required to enroll in a fall-semester class designed to place social justice work in historical, cultural and political perspective.  One of the courses for returning interns and other students with substantial overseas/community work experience is entitled “Human Rights, Development and International Activism.” It examines how ideas of empowerment, rights, participation and social activism are translated, enacted and challenged in local contexts.  Those interns doing internships in the realm of public health and medicine are invited to enroll in the course “Bodies of Injustice:  Health, Illness and Healing in Contexts of Inequality.” Both courses consider the ethical, political and cultural implications of representing and attempting to ameliorate suffering and injustice, encouraging students to use class discussions as an opportunity to reflect on their own internship experience. 

All returning interns are also encouraged to become involved in the work of the CPGC by participating in group projects, attending public talks, sharing their experiences with the campus community and designing their own projects for which they can apply to receive support through the many facets of the Center's programming funds.

Learn more about the various types of summer internships

1. Apply for a (self-designed) International Internship for a project you have planned yourself. (Available to Bryn Mawr and Haverford students)
   

   To schedule an appointment for guidance in planning the details of your self-designed International Internship, please contact Stephanie Zukerman.

2. Apply for a (self-designed) Domestic Internship for a U.S.-based project you have planned yourself.
   

   To schedule an appointment for guidance in planning the details of your self-designed Domestic Internship, please contact Stephanie Zukerman

3. Continuing Connnections if you have done a previous CPGC internship and want to pursue related work.
   

   The Continuing Connections Program allows current undergraduate students to deepen and broaden their understandings of the issues they are studying through:

   • returning to a community or region with which they have already established a connection;

   • continuing to explore an issue that they have already experienced in another setting; or

   • working with a similar community of individuals in another region of the world.

   Eligibility

   Sophomores and juniors from all majors who have already participated in one CPGC internship opportunity are encouraged to apply.

   The Continuing Connections Program expects that students who spend an additional summer living and working in a community will seek opportunities to reflect upon, analyze and elaborate on their experiences when they return to campus. Although there is no specific course planned, we encourage applicants to identify a mentor who can guide and focus their reflections. This could be a professor whose work and interests overlap with the internship and who may be willing to sponsor an independent study project or to advise on a senior thesis.

4. Summer Research if you are interested in doing research domestically or internationally.
   

   The CPGC will fund summer student research domestically or internationally. While we prefer to fund research which is related to a senior thesis, if a strong need to pursue research which is related to another stream of studies, students are welcome to present their ideas in a meeting with the relevant program coordinator.

   Students who have received funding in the past have noted that the experience greatly enhanced their understandings of the issues they were investigating and significantly enriched their thesis work. Please note that we encourage longer research stays or more on-going research, versus shorter stays or one-time visits due to the fact that decisions are made on a relative cost-benefit analysis.

5. Senior Bridge if you are a graduating senior planning an internship which will help bridge you to your next career and/or educational experience.
   

   The senior bridge internship provides the opportunity for seniors to investigate issues of peace and social justice following their graduation from Haverford.

   Awards are given on a competitive basis to graduating seniors who make a compelling case for how this experience will inform and transform what they will be doing after graduation and how it will act as a bridge to what they intend to do after the internship is completed. These internships are designed to enable graduating seniors to engage in meaningful work which expands their understanding and fits with the mission of the Center.

   The internship provides for a minimum of four weeks of exploratory experience in the summer and/or fall following their graduation. This opportunity is designed for students who are eager to deepen their understandings of issues of peace and social justice in a concentrated manner before they continue to graduate school or enter the work force.

Additional opportunities:

• Apply for an International Partnership Internship in China, Indonesia or Mexico City. (Available to Bryn Mawr and Haverford students)
• Apply for a Domestic Partnership Internship at High Rocks, WV; Philadelphia Public School Notebook; or Michigan Land Use Institute.

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