EDTHP 395Real-World Policy Experience: Field Placement
This course structures a summer field experience, research project, and service in an off-site educational policy organization or a university-based policy or research center. EDTHP 395 Field Experience in Education and Public Policy (3)This course structures a summer semester field placement for EPP majors in a non-profit, governmental, or civic organization with an educational policy component. Students gain hands-on, real-world experience implementing their Field Experience Plan (created in EDTHP 394 ) while serving internships in regional and national settings. Student-directed Field Placement Plans include identification of a policy issue relevant to the placement, implementation, evaluation, and analysis and can apply to broad topics such as diversity, multiculturalism, social justice, and educational equity in rural, suburban, and urban settings.
Prerequisites
None listed in the catalog.
Where it sits in degree plans
Suggested plans most often put it in Year 3 · Summer (1 program).
Required in (1)
- Education and Public Policy, B.S.
One of the options in (1)
- Social Justice in Education, Minor