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Graduate Course Proposal Form Submission Detail - SYA6940
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- Date & Time Submitted: 2005-07-12
- Department: Sociology
- College: AS
- Budget Account Number: 0-1263-000
- Contact Person: Donileen Loseke
- Phone: 42517
- Email: dloseke@cas.usf.edu
- Prefix: SYA
- Number: 6940
- Full Title: Internship
- Credit Hours: 1-6
- Section Type: I -
Internships (Including Practicum)
- Is the course title variable?: N
- Is a permit required for registration?: Y
- Are the credit hours variable?: Y
- Is this course repeatable?:
- If repeatable, how many times?: 0
- Abbreviated Title (30 characters maximum): Internship
- Course Online?: -
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- Grading Option:
S - S/U Only
- Prerequisites: Graduate Standing
- Corequisites:
- Course Description: Designed for students wishing to develop practical sociological skills and apply sociological knowledge to questions of practical concern. Internship experiences include those in basic and applied research, community organization, and public policy.
- Please briefly explain why it is necessary and/or desirable to add this course: Our graduate program offers students two options: completion of a Thesis or completion of an Internship. To date, we have used a variable title course "independent study" to sign students up for Internship. This has not had positive consequences for th
- What is the need or demand for this course? (Indicate if this course is part of a required sequence in the major.) What other programs would this course service? We typically have 2-3 graduate students per semester completing the Internship option. It will be part of the required sequence for students who chose to complete the Internship rather than Thesis option.
- Has this course been offered as Selected Topics/Experimental Topics course? If yes, how many times? No. But is has been offered under a variable title course "Independent Study."
- What qualifications for training and/or experience are necessary to teach this course? (List minimum qualifications for the instructor.) Ph.D. in Sociology
- Objectives: Specific objectives will depend upon students' interests and the characteristics of the internship site. These specific objectives should be in two forms:
1) To apply sociological theoretical understandings and empirical knowledge to real-world issues in ongoing organizations.
2) To build sociological theoretical understandings and empirical knowledge with information obtained through the internship experience.
- Learning Outcomes: Specific learning outcomes will depend on students' interests and the characteristics of the internship site. Such specific outcomes should reflect the general learning outcome: To develop practical sociological skills and apply knwledge from graduate training to questions of practical concern
- Major Topics: Course "topics" will depnd upon the internship site chosen by the student in consultation with the student's advisor.
- Textbooks: Each student will develop a list of readings that are relevant to the specific internship site and experiences. The proposed reading list must be approved by the sponsoring faculty member and it must contain works that reflect current knowledge in academic sociology.
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- if you have questions about any of these fields, please contact chinescobb@grad.usf.edu or joe@grad.usf.edu.