Syllabus
Contacts:
*** We will communicate with you through Blackboard emails throughout this course (the registrar's office controls which email address receives these emails, not us)
*** It is mandatory that you READ ALL EMAILS WE SEND
*** Mark your DUE DATES NOW for the two assignments
Craigh Barboza
Career Services Specialist
NYU Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute
20 Cooper Square, Room 647
New York, NY 10003
Email: craigh.barboza@nyu.edu
Phone: 212-998-3837
Sylvan Solloway
Director of Career Services
NYU Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute
20 Cooper Square, Room 656
New York, NY 10003
Email: sylvan.solloway@nyu.edu
Phone: 212-992-7995
Fax: 212-995-4148
PROCEDURES AND ASSIGNMENTS FOR SUMMER 2012
Your Work Hours: SUMMER internship should take up a minimum 170 hours of your summer. You should always ARRANGE your SCHEDULE and discuss beginning and ending dates with your job-site supervisor (and let us know). If you want to work a short time beyond the end of the semester, that's your choice. Please note: you must be registered in this class to receive credit, so do not allow an employer to assume you will receive credit if you remain for a second semester without registering for this class again. You can only earn credit for one internship per semester. WE MUST APPROVE your internship BEFORE you can recieve credit.
Intern Record Sheet: In order to register for the course, you must E-MAIL a completed Intern Record Sheet to Craigh.Barboza@nyu.edu AND Sylvan.Solloway@nyu.edu (the director of Career Services). Please fill out all the requested information -- including your supervisor's email address and telephone number, then cut and paste into your email to us. (NO attachments please.) Use this email SUBJECT LINE: "INTERN RECORD SHEET - your name." You will receive an access code by email. Please use that code to register for the course on Albert. A letter will be sent confirming that you will receive academic credit and that the supervisor will have to complete an evaluation. Please find out if someone in your company's Human Resources office also needs a letter confirming that you will receive credit. If so, please provide that person's e-mail address and fax number on your Intern Record Sheet.
Course Registration: You cannot receive credit unless you register and pay for the course before registration closes for the semester. If you have questions about the timing, please contact Career Services.
THERE ARE TWO (2) ASSIGNMENTS: REMEMBER TO PROOFREAD, SPELL CHECK AND ADHERE TO WORD COUNT REQUIREMENTS!
DUE DATES: SUMMER 2012
- Log 1 - Wednesday, June 27
- Log 2 - Wednesday, August 1
It should be a very well-written report describing your internship experience in 500 words and UPLOADED AS A WORD .doc (not .docx) TO BLACKBOARD. (Bonus if you can fit it one one page, two maximum without small type and make it good!)
DUE DATES are listed above. WRITE THESE DOWN and email sylvan.solloway@nyu.edu if you need an extension for a valid reason (for instance, if your internship begins just days before the first log is due.)
Format: Remember you should pay attention to presentation AND content. These essays should be thoughtful, self-reflective and contain a lead and a conclusion. There should be distinct paragraphs, good sentence structure, correct grammar and accurate spelling. Style DON'Ts include capitalizing job titles in sentences and inconsistent use of first names versus last names in your copy. Careless writing or turning your log in late without permission will have an impact on your grade. PROOFREAD YOUR LOGS.
Header (the top of each page should include this):
Last name, first name
Your status (Junior, double majoring in History or 2nd Semester Grad CRC)
Your employer: THE VILLAGE VOICE (Film Section)
The semester: SUMMER 2012
Final Word Count: 519
When writing your logs it may be helpful to answer some of the following questions (but please do so with style, flow and structure!):
- Tell us what you've learned about the company where you are working -- and your division. Who owns the company and where does your section fit into the big picture? What are the biggest challenges your employer is facing in today's media environment?
- Describe a typical day at the internship and/or your overall experience.
- How have your impressions of the internship, the publication/station and your co-workers changed since the first day?
- In what ways have you shown initiative and what's your strategy to succeed throughout the rest of your internship?
- Have you had any problems or challenges at your internship -- and how have you dealt with these?
- Please share links to any of your work that's been published/broadcast.
2) LOG 2 - The Review Essay (200 Words):
Log 2 (which is the last log): Your final log should be a brief review of your internship (no more than 200 words) that tells other students what to expect if they, too, intern at that company. Write to other students, they are your audience! This review will be available as a reference for students next semester. All internship reviews will be anonymous. Be honest, but please do not include any editors' or producers' names.
(Include the header as instructed above with your name, but we'll delete your name before sharing.)
Content: Include in your review a description of what the publication/show does; what you did at the internship; how much time you spent doing various tasks, including grunt work; the potential for getting clips; offer pitching advice to future interns and anything else you think is pertinent. Would you recommend this internship to another student? Why or why not?
Supervisor's Evaluation: Toward the end of your internship we'll e-mail an evaluation form to your supervisor. Be sure to let us know if your supervisor changes during the semester, so we can send the evaluation form to the right person. It is your responsibility to make sure we get the evaluation form back from your supervisor. You are allowed to see your evaluation (unless your supervisor requests otherwise).
To repeat: Submit your logs via Blackboard. You may be contacted by the Career Services office for an individual meeting to discuss your logs. Do not assume you will be receiving an "A" for this course because you show up for your internship every day. Your logs also must be very good. Also, make sure you're receiving emails from us through Blackboard throughout the course.
If You're Having Any Problems at Your Internship/or Need Help: Don't hesitate to let the Career Services director know - especially if you feel you're being asked to do a disproportionate amount of grunt work, such as spending most of your time making copies or running personal errands for your supervisor. Your communication is important because it's the only way we have of monitoring the environment inside the media organizations we work with. And if you feel the atmosphere at your workplace is any way threatening or harassing, call or e-mail the Career Services director directly and immediately. Please write "Urgent" in the subject heading of such an e-mail.
If You Stop Going to Your Internship - Let us know! This is a course and the job site is your classroom. We are grading you and need to know what's going on, so if you become ill or for any reason are missing your scheduled internship hours, inform us. (Vacations are OK, but clear with your employer first.)
Grades: You get a letter grade for the internship class (through summer of 2012), as with any other course. Your logs -- your writing, promptness and quality of submission will count for half your grade. Your supervisor's evaluation will count for the other half. (**Starting in the fall of 2012, the internship course will be grades as pass or fail. The credit will still count toward your overall degree, but not toward the journalism major.)
PLEASE CONTACT US if you have any issues or need any advice about your internship! We are here to help you sort through problems or help you develop pitching strategies and other ways to succeed.