CORE 451 - Engaged Learning Internship

Upper Division

Prerequisites
Permission of instructor

This is a two-credit, upper division Engaged learning (EL) course. In CORE 451, students are unpaid interns (4-5 hours/week) at Bay Area nonprofits, and integrate their service with an academic component to explore theories of change, organizational theory, vocational exploration, and topics related to their majors. In this course, students will critically reflect, analyze, and discuss service experiences from a community engagement framework as they relate to a professional experience in a nonprofit setting. The aim is for students to contribute to serving low income and marginalized communities and/or to promote efforts of social justice and sustainability through direct service or capacity building while engaginng in personal and professional development.

Core Curriculum Designation(s)
EL - Engaged Learning

Repeatable
Yes

Course credits: 2