≡ Instructor: Doris Dant
Office: 4069 JFSB
Phone: 422-4047
E-mail: drant@gmail.com



Editing internship assignments
Outcomes
Evaluation
Internship schedule
Sexual harassment
Students with disabilities
Resources to further develop your professionalism

Editing internship assignments

• Work logs—submitted weekly
• Three written reports
• Advice to future interns
• Oral presentation
• Midservice and final evaluations by internship supervisor

Outcomes

• Students will set four types of goals for their internship, then modify them as needed during the internship.
• Students will strengthen existing skills and/or gain new skills.
• Students will correlate their experiences to the stages of a standard internship.
• Students will seek solutions to problems that arise on site, as reported in the work logs and reports.
• Students will explain what they learned and contributed during the internship and what advice they have for future interns at that site.
• From the onsite internship supervisor, each student will receive a rating of at least “satisfactory” on the majority of the scales on the final evaluation form.

Evaluation

Grades will be determined as follows:

work logs	20%
written reports	30%
oral presentation	10%
supervisor evaluations	40% (final evaluation is required for credit to be granted)

Grading for the course

A 94 – 100%	B+ 87 – 89%	B- 80 – 83%	C 74 – 76%
A- 90 – 93%	B 84 – 86%	C+ 77 – 79%	C- 70 – 73%

Internship schedule

Week 1

Skim chapter three, “Framing the Experience,” and read pages 100–103 (from “Experiencing the ‘What Ifs’”) in The Successful Internship. These readings are located in electronic reserve for ELang399, password DAN399.
Due: work log 1
Report 1

Week 2

Due: work log 2

Week 3

Due: work log 3

Week 4

Reread chapter three, “Framing the Experience,” and read chapter eleven, “Breaking through Barriers,” plus pages 197–205 (from “Taking Stock and Facing Reality”) in The Successful Internship. These readings are located in electronic reserve for ELang399, password DAN399.
Due: work log 4
Midservice supervisor evaluation
Report 2

Week 5

Due: work log 5

Week 6

Due: work log 6

Week 7

Due: work log 7
Report 3
Post advice to future interns
Final supervisor evaluation

Week 8

Due: work log 8
Oral presentation

Warning! Check to see that your internship supervisor has completed and sent the final evaluation form (with a recommended letter grade for the course) to the editing internship coordinator. Otherwise, your grade will be lowered 20 percent.

Sexual harassment

See the official BYU statement on sexual harassment in the workplace.

Students with disabilities

Brigham Young University is committed to providing a working and learning atmosphere that reasonably accommodates qualified persons with disabilities. If you have any disability which may impair your ability to complete this course successfully, please contact the University Accessibility Center (422-2767). Reasonable academic accommodations are reviewed for all students who have qualified documented disabilities. Services are coordinated with the student and instructor by the SSD Office. If you need assistance or if you feel you have been unlawfully discriminated against on the basis of disability, you may seek resolution through established grievance policy and procedures. You should contact the Equal Opportunity Office at 422-5895, D-282 ASB.