General Requirements for Internship
Note: These requirements
are independent from your specific internship goals and activities.
- Agency Paper or other major project.
* For the agency paper, follow the outline provided in Appendix
B. Typed.
- Log of experiences: Not an itinerary of
ordinary activities or events, but a daily record of your cognitive
and affective responses throughout the day. Learn to access various
dimensions of your experiences and articulate them so that patterns
can be identified and your awareness of each experience is increased
beyond mere participation and observation. Think of high points,
critical events and new activities during your day that you can
respond to. Look for overarching themes (such as ethical concerns)
relevant to your becoming a professional.
- Two practical projects: Plan to engage
in activities which result in you completing or producing something
of use to the agency. Examples are: conference reports, research,
activity schedules, lesson plans, brochures, in-services, training
experiences, record-keeping systems, rewriting internship or policy
manuals.
- Completed evaluation from agency supervisor
at the end of the internship. This should be sent to your BSU internship
supervisor during the last week of the internship.
- A return visit to BSU to meet with other
interns, the faculty, and students who are interested in hearing
about your internship experience. Ask your BSU supervisor for the
date.
* Psychology majors may substitute a
review of literature or original research project of some interest or
use to the agency instead of submitting the "agency paper."