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Child Development
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Internships
Internships are an exciting experience for students in Human Development, Family Sciences and Rural Sociology. Generally completed between the junior and senior year of the undergraduate program, the internship acquaints students with real-world opportunities in their field. A faculty member serves as a coordinator for the 180 hour experience, helping to identify opportunities, teach the basics of getting a job, and acting as advocate during the summer.
Examples of past internships include working in:
- a church youth program,
- a crisis center,
- a battered women's shelter,
- an urban hospital,
- a day care center, and
- a youth develoment program
- Laboratory School
Clubs
- Association for the Education of Young Children
- Phi Upsilon Omicron
- Friends of the Infant Development Center