Programs: Internships
Details and Eligibility
The CPGC internship includes a rigorous application process, a pre-departure weekend-long orientation (April 5-7, 2013), and enrollment in a course upon return to campus. This course will help students integrate their experience into political, historical and cultural contexts.
CPGC internships ideally span 8-10 weeks. Interns are expected to work full time (35-40 hours per week) for their host organization. CPGC covers intern’s costs, including travel, local transportation, required vaccinations, visas, food, housing; CPGC also provides the summer earnings expectation for students who receive financial aid.
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.
Students are strongly encouraged to schedule an advising session with the appropriate program coordinator. Make an appointment: Janice Lion (Domestic Program) or Chloe Tucker (International Program)
Learn more about the various types of summer internships
- Self-Designed International Internship for a project you have planned yourself (Available to Bryn Mawr and Haverford students)
- Self-Designed Domestic Internship for a U.S.-based project you have planned yourself
Students interning in Philadelphia will be required to live in the city. See the main internship page for lists of previous self-designed internships. Schedule an appointment to discuss your project idea with our (international or domestic) program coordinator.
- Continuing Connections 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.
- Summer Research if you are interested in doing research domestically or internationally.
While we prefer to fund research which is related to a senior thesis, if a strong need to pursue research 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.
- 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.
- International Partnership Internships
These internships are available in China, Indonesia, Mexico City, or India. (Available to Bryn Mawr and Haverford students)
- Domestic Partnership Internships
These internships are available at High Rocks, WV; Philadelphia Public School Notebook; Weaver's Way Community Programs: Farm Education Intern; Michigan Land Use Institute; Haverford Garden, and Philadelphia Futures.
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