IDIS 490 Internship Application: Prepare for Your Future
The IDIS 490 internship bridges academia with your professional career, emphasizing the importance of setting clear goals. This multi-disciplinary program aims to help students broaden their horizons, stretch their limits, and prepare for their future careers by encouraging thoughtful planning and intentional goal-setting. Requirements include junior standing, a 2.5 GPA, and enrolling in IDIS 490 for credit. The internship should align with your academic and professional objectives, with a focus on new experiences and skill development. Emphasizing that internships should advance career goals, it provides guidance on choosing the right placement. The application process entails providing personal information, detailing relevant experiences, career aspirations, and organizational connections.
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Internship Application Interdisciplinary Studies Program IDIS 490 Prepare for your future. Broaden your horizons. Stretch your limits. Introduction: The IDIS 490 internship is designed to be your bridge between the academic world and your professional career. You should not take on an internship without first setting out your goals. What is it that you hope to achieve in undertaking an internship? What profession do you hope to enter upon leaving university? What type of organization would be your ideal employer (academia, government, not-for-profit, self-employment, entrepreneur, small company, large company)? Do you see yourself as a manager or technical consultant? Do you have interests in a profession you would like to explore? In short, a good internship is specific, it is about you and what you hope to achieve. Before you pursue an internship, first think about your destination. What destination is on the other side of this bridge? The IDIS internship is designed to be multi-disciplinary and flexible. Our goal is to help you set your goals and measure your progress across the bridge. An internship should help you prepare for your future, broaden your horizons, and stretch your limits. Requirements for your Internship: At least Junior standing and a 2.5 cumulative GPA; Complete the Internship placement to align with your professional and academic goals; The student is responsible for finding your internship placement. The IDIS program will provide assistance, if needed; Completion of the Internship Application and Program approval the semester prior to beginning your internship; Enroll in IDIS 490 for the appropriate number of credit hours. This course may only be taken once. You are free to choose any profession, activity, and organization, with IDIS Program approval. We recommend earning an internship at an organization where you have never worked, so that you gain new experiences. You can create an internship with your current or previous employer only if it is in a different division and position, achieves the goals outlined above, and is justified. Choosing an internship that does not advance your career or personal goals would be a waste of your time.
Part 1: Intern personal information When complete, please email to: Mark Danderson MLDANDERSON@salisbury.edu or deliver a print copy in a sealed envelope to the IDIS Office Holloway Hall 347. Please type information in the righthand column of table below. Q1 Intern Information Name Student ID# Phone # Internship phone # Email Local address Internship address Major/Track Year/Semester of internship Credits completed prior to internship Cumulative GPA Total credits during internship semester List previous courses in IDIS, your major or your minor that you believe help to qualify you for this internship. Q2. Class # Course Name Credits Grade
Part 1: Personal Experience and aspirations In this section tell us how this internship corresponds with your future professional and personal plans. Q3. Describe below any relevant professional experience related to this internship, such as jobs, internships, or service. Q4. What are your career aspirations? How does this internship advance those goals? Q5. Describe how you found this internship and your connection, if any, with the organization or its employees. Q6. Are you now working at the organization where you will be undertaking your internship? If yes, please answer the question on the last page. Q7. Have you ever worked at the organization where you will be undertaking your internship? If yes, please answer the question on the last page.
Part 2: About the organization where you will undertake your internship Please type information in the righthand column of table below. Q8. Internship Organization Name of organization Address Name of on-site supervisor Supervisor s title Supervisor s department Supervisor s email Supervisor s phone # No of employees Type of industry If you answered yes to Q6 or Q7 then you must answer this question. If you answered no you can proceed to Q10. The mission for our internship experience is to prepare, broaden, and stretch. If you are going to do an internship with a current or former employer, you must do so in a different department and position that fulfills the mission of our internship. Q9. If you want to do an internship with your current or former employer, then the duties of your job must be expanded or altered to include new activities and responsibilities. Explain how your job will change. What new duties will be assigned to you? What new activities will you do? How do these new duties and activities relate to the goals of internship as outlined in the introduction? Be as specific as you can.
Part 3: Information about the internship Please type information in the righthand column of table below. Q10. Internship Internship job title Anticipated start date Anticipated end date Anticipated # of hours worked per week Anticipated total hours Note: You must work 45 hours for each credit hour earned. You can earn from 4 8 academic credit hours based on the total number of hours worked during the internship. Enter credit hours earned when registering via GullNet. Q11. Weekly work schedule Mon Tues Wed Thur Fri Sat Sun Q12. Employment income details Will you get paid? If yes, how much will you be paid? Are any intern expenses paid by the organization? Q13. If you answered yes to the expenses question, please detail expenses to be covered by your employer.
Part 3: Information about the internship Q14. Describe in detail the assignments of the internship. What will you be doing? What are your responsibilities? What activities will you be undertaking? This description will serve as the basis for your final grading and assigning credit, so be as specific as possible. Responsibility/ Activity Est. % of time Description 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Note: Percentage total must equal 100%
Part 4: Signatures After the prospective intern and the In-site Internship Supervisor sign/date this application, the Intern submits the application to the IDIS Internship Director for review. Internship approvals are based upon an assessment of the internship helping the student achieve their stated professional and personal goals. The best internships prepare you for your future, broaden your horizons, and stretch your limits. All three signatures are required as part of the approval process. Intern signature Date On-Site Supervisor signature Date IDIS Internship Director signature Date Internship is Approved Not Approved Special Note: Since this agreement reflects a contract between the student, Salisbury University, the IDIS program, and an external organization, the student cannot drop or withdraw from an internship experience without in- person discussion with the IDIS Internship Director in advance of such an action.
