Our Mission
Macalester recognizes internships as an integral part of its curriculum,
enabling students to participate in structured, supervised learning
experiences off campus. The Internship Program strives to provide
out-of-classroom opportunities which help students build on and
enhance previous course work completed in a discipline by integrating
distinctive work-learning experience off the campus with related
curricular choices to reinforce learning on campus. The Internship
Program is an academic unit designed to serve students who undertake
an internship for course credit. Students may engage in internships
in a variety of settings which match their academic goals, including
nonprofit organizations, government and business.
Objectives:
1. To provide opportunities for students to examine first-hand
knowledge and theories learned in the classroom for their wider
impact on society and the world at large.
2. To provide opportunities for students to evaluate and apply
a body of knowledge and methods of inquiry from an academic discipline.
3. To provide students access to a larger or different "laboratory"
of equipment and/or situations not easily obtained or available
on campus.
4. To provide students expanded opportunities for self-directed
learning.
5. To enable students to develop work competencies for specific
professions and to explore career interests and form networks.
6. To provide opportunities for students to develop intellectual
and professional partnerships.
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