HDFS 495AInternship: Advanced Experience
HD FS 495A Internship: Advanced Experience (8) HD FS 495A represents a full-time, one-semester internship experience. Its focus is experiential learning accompanied by intensive supervision, provided by one-site personnel, as well as University-based mentoring. Taken within a year of the pre-internship course (HD FS 490), which helps the student with the details of making arrangements for their internship, HD FS 495A, taken during the same semester as HD FS 495B, is considered the capstone of the HD FS undergraduate program. The internship can be taken during the fall, spring, or summer semester. It is one full semester spent working as a human service professional in a setting of your choice. Generally interns will work as a full-time professional (35-40 hours a week) for the semester.
Prerequisites
From the catalog: “HDFS 490 and HDFS 301 and HDFS 455 , and permission of internship director”
Where it sits in degree plans
Suggested plans most often put it in Year 4 · Spring (2 programs).
One of the options in (5)
- Human Development and Family Studies, B.S. (Altoona)
- Human Development and Family Studies, B.S. (Capital)
- Human Development and Family Studies, B.S. (Health and Human Development)
- Human Development and Family Studies, B.S. (University College)
- Psychological and Social Sciences, B.A.
Courses that list HDFS 495A as a prerequisite (1)
- HDFS 495B Internship: Advanced Project