Seminar: Students taking an internship for credit must attend the Internship Seminar (V36.0800) and submit a learning contract 1 month before the semester begins.

Learning Contract: The learning contract should include the following, and total at least 2 pages:

• Name, address, phone number, and email address for: you, the Environmental Studies Program Coordinator, and your internship site supervisor.
• Start and end date (totaling a minimum of 6 hours/week for one semester).
• Indicate that your internship is for academic credit at NYU as part of your major.
  
• The nature and detail of internship/tasks/skills (min. 1 paragraph).
  
• Intended learning goals, e.g. learning how a small scale non-profit works (min. 1 paragraph).
• How the internship relates to your course of study.

Midterm Paper and Presentation:The midterm paper is a 2-page reflection on what you have learned thus far (compared to your learning contract), what your goals for the second half of the semester are, and how the internship experience relates to your environmental studies coursework and education. Your presentation will cover all of these points, and should be a succinct 3-5 minutes long.

Final Paper: In 3-5 pages, please reflect on your semester's internship and your success in reaching the learning goals spelled out in the learning contract. Please include: (1) a detailed description of the skills and insights you have acquired; (2) the most helpful/useful part of the internship; (3) areas for improvement (personally; at the site; as it relates to your academic course of study); and, (4) how the internship has/hasn't informed your post-graduation plans and vision. The goal is more than just telling us what you did, but also reflecting on how you've learned from your site (including any insight on your own learning style and strengths), what you have have learned about how environmental projects are undertaken (and how environmental groups operate), and how you see this experience relating to your classroom-based understanding of environmental studies. Please structure the paper according to this numbering.

Final Presentation: In 5 minutes, please present the following: (1) your learning successes and areas for improvement this semester, (2) questions your internship has raised for your ES (and undergraduate) education (including the direction you hope to take after graduation), and (3) any insights about how environmental groups operate, succeed (or not), and their place in resolving environmental problems. Also, as student ambassadors to the environmental community in NYC, we would like to know (1) how valuable your experience was to your undergraduate education, (2) what we can do to improve the internship experience for you, and (3) what the strengths and weaknesses of the site were (i.e., what kind of students should we send there in the future?). And, as always, please feel free to send me any feedback at all on your internship experience - anything from reflections, sharing an interesting or awful experience or project, thoughts on your site-specific experience, and any advice you have for us on improving the internship experience.

Journals:You are required to write 1-page reflective journal entries at least twice per month. These will be handed in along with your final paper. Between all of these entries, please describe your professional and personal development. Include new knowledge, insights, values, interests, and aptitudes as well as communication, interpersonal, organizational, and other skills. Include perceived strengths and weaknesses of your performance.