Designing A State Capital Internship Program: Lessons Learned in a New Program
By Steven D. Roper, Camila Mychalczuk and Cristina López Vergara, Florida Atlantic University
As a form of experiential learning, public service internships are important as they provide “real-world” opportunities for students to build career readiness. In 2022, our University began its first-ever state capital internship program. In this article, we explore the design and implementation in creating our internship program. We discuss successes and failures as we navigated recruitment and selection as well as curriculum design and placement. We believe that there are lessons learned from our three years of experience that can provide issues to consider for those designing their first state capital internship program as well as those with existing programs.
The Journal of Political Science Education is an intellectually rigorous, path-breaking, agenda-setting journal that publishes the highest quality scholarship on teaching and pedagogical issues in political science. The journal aims to represent the full range of questions, issues and approaches regarding political science education, including teaching-related issues, methods and techniques, learning/teaching activities and devices, educational assessment in political science, graduate education, and curriculum development.
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