CPSY 4996—Field Study in Child Psychology
Procedures for obtaining course credit for internship experience
Credits
Sign up for appropriate credits, for example 1 credit = 3 hours per
week – 45 hours per semester.
2 credits = 6 hours per week – 90 hours per semester.
Maximum credits = 4.
Professor and on-site supervisor
Discuss your interest with a peer adviser first. For internship
ideas, go to www.cclc.umn.edu or call
612-624-7577 (CLA Career), or use our
bulletin board.
Next, contact
someone at the site where you would like to do your volunteer work
and coordinate with site
supervisor your schedule. Your on-site supervisor should be someone
who sees you “in action”
frequently. For example, if you are working in a daycare center, the
teacher you are working
with would be the right choice. Ask the teacher if they would
complete a very short evaluation
of your work at the end of the semester. Stress that you are there
to volunteer, and that there are
no formal expectations of them.
Requirements
Readings and paper
Read 4-6 articles or 1-2 books on topics related to your volunteer
experience. Work with your
professor or on-site supervisor to decide what you will read. For
example, if you were working
with autistic children you would read articles or books about
childhood autism and methods used
in treating autistic children. At the end of the semester hand in a
paper (about 3-5 typewritten
pages) integrating the readings with your experiences. For example,
if you are working with an
autistic child describe what this child was like and the way in
which this child did or did not
conform to the descriptions of autistic children you read about. The
length of your literature
review paper depends upon how many credits you have registered for.
Observations
Keep a journal of your daily observations of the children. This
should be quite detailed—at least
one page per session. Describe what the child or children did, and
how you interpret their
behavior, and so on. Make your observations based on child
development knowledge and
theories.
On-site Supervisor Evaluation – get from Peer Advising office.
On this form, fill in your name, turn in to your on-site supervisor
one week before the end of the
semester and ask that the evaluation form be returned to you. Turn
in your completed evaluation
and assignments to Ann McLoone by the week of finals.
Revision April 2004
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