Internships provide professional learning experiences for qualified students in applied settings. Students will obtain an internship site whereby they will work for a minimum of 200 hours on projects that provide them experience in applied settings. The Internship can be started after the student has completed at least 24 hours in the OLIT Masters Program and it must be completed the semester before the one in which the student plans to graduate. The Internship Supervisor’s evaluation letter must be in the Professional Portfolio, which is turned in by the sixth week of the semester in which the student will graduate or the third week in summer. This graduation semester is also the semester in which the student will enroll in OLIT 596 and complete the Professional Portfolio.
The Internship work must be related to coursework the student has taken. The worksite may be the student's current worksite, another worksite, a community site, or a research/work experience with faculty. Finding an Internship Site is the responsibility of the student. Please contact the faculty advisor for suggestions.
A student will have a Faculty Internship Supervisor and a Worksite Supervisor. The Faculty Internship Supervisor's role is to ensure the Internship experience is within the capabilities of the student, that the student has taken the requisite coursework needed to perform the work, and will serve as the chair of the three member Professional Portfolio Faculty Review Committee. The Faculty Internship Supervisor must be a tenured or tenure-track OLIT faculty member. Students will request one of the regular faculty members to be the Chair of their Review Committee and to act as the Faculty Internship Supervisor. Usually the Faculty Advisor for the Internship is the student’s Master’s Advisor. The Worksite Supervisor's role is to oversee the actual work of the student while they are an Intern and to provide a written evaluation of the student's work. Internships can be paid or unpaid. Salary and other employment matters are decided between the organization sponsoring the Internship and the Intern.
At the beginning of the Internship, the student will complete an Internship Proposal. The Internship Proposal will contain the following information:
No later than the semester before the one in which the student graduates, the student will complete and sign his or her Program of Studies form and submit it to the Program Specialist. Next the Program Coordinator and Department Chair sign the form and it is submitted to Office of Graduate Studies (OGS). (Blank forms are available at the Program Office or at http://www.unm.edu/~grad/forms/forms.html)
At the conclusion of the Internship, the Worksite Supervisor will provide the Faculty Internship Supervisor with a written evaluation of the work performed by the Intern. In the case that the work has not been completed successfully, as determined by the Worksite Supervisor’s evaluation, the student will be required to complete another Internship before enrolling in OLIT 596 and developing the Professional Portfolio. A checklist is provided at the back of this bulletin to help the Worksite Supervisor complete the evaluation letter. The student should print The Worksite Supervisor’s Evaluation Consideration List and give it to the Worksite Supervisor.
The "L" stands for "Learning"
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