Internship Information for Site Supervisors
Thank you for your interest in the SLU English Internship Program!
The SLU English Department's internship program supports upper-level English majors who wish to supplement their academic course of study with an educational work experience.
Typically, our students can offer strong writing, researching, editing, and critical thinking skills that are broadly applicable, across a diverse range of fields.
We believe the internship experience should be an educational one in which students face the challenge of both practicing the skills they have in a new social environment and developing new skills in response to that environment and its operational needs.
We also believe that the program should present supervisors with an opportunity to encounter new talent and energy as well as engage in developing career paths into their respective fields.
To this end, the SLU English internship features three elements:
To foster a stimulating learning experience in the workplace, we believe students seeking internships should, in advance, have a clear sense of the duties and responsibilities associated with the internship with respect to both the English Department and their site supervisor
On the department end, while students are expected to find and apply for an internship opportunity themselves, one of our faculty members, Antony Hasler, serves as an Internship Coordinator, to support students--and supervisors--through the internship process.
On the supervisor end, students should have an understanding of the variety of work they will expected to do on site (be it writing, researching, editing, teaching, acquiring new skills) and the training and mentoring they can expect to receive. For this reason, we ask that students and site supervisors work together to complete a Student Learning Contract at the outset of the internship.
Site supervisors should be aware that over the course of the internship, students will be asked to keep a record of activity and to produce a final paper (or project) that examines how the internship experience was informed by and will perhaps now inform the student's progress through the English major at Saint Louis University.
Finally, at the end of the internship experience, we ask site supervisors to complete an Intern Performance Evaluation, which will be used by the Internship Coordinator to assign the student a grade (of satisfactory/unsatisfactory). And we invite the student also to evaluate her/his experience through an Intern Survey.
As internships that can be used for course credit must comply with Labor Department laws, we ask that site supervisors take a moment to become familiar with the six criteria governing the hiring of unpaid interns. And we ask that site supervisors --anyone at the organization where the internship is held who will be mentoring or supervising our students--review the Rights & Responsibilities that we believe lead to a successful internship. Finally, we ask that the intern and site supervisor review and complete an Acknowledgment of Risk and Release form.
The English Department at Saint Louis University hopes the internship program will help build strong relationships between our academic community and the organizations in our region and those overlapping with our field of study.
We thank you for your interest and investment in our students. If you have any questions about the internship program at any stage, please contact the Internship Coordinator, Dr. Antony Hasler.
The SLU English Department's internship program supports upper-level English majors who wish to supplement their academic course of study with an educational work experience.
Typically, our students can offer strong writing, researching, editing, and critical thinking skills that are broadly applicable, across a diverse range of fields.
We believe the internship experience should be an educational one in which students face the challenge of both practicing the skills they have in a new social environment and developing new skills in response to that environment and its operational needs.
We also believe that the program should present supervisors with an opportunity to encounter new talent and energy as well as engage in developing career paths into their respective fields.
To this end, the SLU English internship features three elements:
- on-site work
- academic component
- evaluation
To foster a stimulating learning experience in the workplace, we believe students seeking internships should, in advance, have a clear sense of the duties and responsibilities associated with the internship with respect to both the English Department and their site supervisor
On the department end, while students are expected to find and apply for an internship opportunity themselves, one of our faculty members, Antony Hasler, serves as an Internship Coordinator, to support students--and supervisors--through the internship process.
On the supervisor end, students should have an understanding of the variety of work they will expected to do on site (be it writing, researching, editing, teaching, acquiring new skills) and the training and mentoring they can expect to receive. For this reason, we ask that students and site supervisors work together to complete a Student Learning Contract at the outset of the internship.
Site supervisors should be aware that over the course of the internship, students will be asked to keep a record of activity and to produce a final paper (or project) that examines how the internship experience was informed by and will perhaps now inform the student's progress through the English major at Saint Louis University.
Finally, at the end of the internship experience, we ask site supervisors to complete an Intern Performance Evaluation, which will be used by the Internship Coordinator to assign the student a grade (of satisfactory/unsatisfactory). And we invite the student also to evaluate her/his experience through an Intern Survey.
As internships that can be used for course credit must comply with Labor Department laws, we ask that site supervisors take a moment to become familiar with the six criteria governing the hiring of unpaid interns. And we ask that site supervisors --anyone at the organization where the internship is held who will be mentoring or supervising our students--review the Rights & Responsibilities that we believe lead to a successful internship. Finally, we ask that the intern and site supervisor review and complete an Acknowledgment of Risk and Release form.
The English Department at Saint Louis University hopes the internship program will help build strong relationships between our academic community and the organizations in our region and those overlapping with our field of study.
We thank you for your interest and investment in our students. If you have any questions about the internship program at any stage, please contact the Internship Coordinator, Dr. Antony Hasler.