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Internships and Practical Experience
The SI Career Services and Practical Enagement Office can assist you in identifying internship opportunities. Once you have obtained or identified an internship, our office will review the internship to determine PEP credit elibility. Once your internship has been approved for PEP credit, our office will help ensure you have a valuable, meaningful experience by monitoring and overseeing your internship progress.
You can earn PEP credits for an internship as long as the position meets the following requirements:
- The work is related to what is taught at the School of Information and is at an appropriate level of professionalism.
- A mentor spends time with you creating a work plan, reviewing your work, and offering you advice and guidance. Your mentor must be more knowledgeable in the subject of your work than you are.
- One or more learning outcomes to your work can be stated at the outset of the internship and evaluated at the end.
- Work must be practical-based, or applied. Work that is research-based only will not qualify.
- Work must provide you perspective outside of the School of Information. As a student intern, you should be provided the opportunity to network and have contact with external constituents for more than 50 percent of your time (this is important to note for students interning with SI faculty).
To earn PEP credits for your internship, you must enroll in SI 690 during the term in which you hold the internship or in SI 681 in the fall term immediately following the summer work. The course is graded as "Satisfactory" or "Unsatisfactory." A maximum of six credits/PEP points can be earned at one internship, in one place, with the same mentor. These six credits count toward the number required for your degree. Your regular, ongoing employment is not considered an internship.
During your internship, you must complete an online portfolio that includes:
- Weekly blog entry
- Bi-weekly reports
- Self-evaluation/reflection at the end of the internship
If you choose to enroll in SI 681 in the term immediately following the internship, you must also attend a career seminar class and conduct a presentation for the fall SI@Work event.
Mentors need to:
- Submit a proposal before the internship begins. We will also accept an offer letter and job description from the student.
- Agree to the mentor guidelines (MS Word)
- Help you develop your work plan
- Submit a final evaluation at the end of the internship
Contact the PEP Office immediately to start the enrollment process when you are notified that you have received an internship. SI has sample proposals and work plans that you can forward to your mentor. Your mentor must send a proposal to the School before you will be allowed to enroll or you must provide an offer letter and job description before you will be allowed to enroll.
PEP Office Contacts
Contact the PEP Office:
- For internship search advice and counseling, contact Kelly Kowatch at kkowatch@umich.edu.
- For PEP questions and to seek approval of an internship for PEP credit, contact Joanna Kroll at jckroll@umich.edu.
- For internship portfolio, override, and registration questions, contact Connie Schaffer at cmschaff@umich.edu.
Last updated:
Feb 06, 2008
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