HDFS 495BInternship: Advanced Project

3 credits · Human Development and Family Studies · Penn State

HD FS 495B Internship: Advanced Project (4) HD FS 495B is taken at the same time as HD FS 495A, and within a year of the pre-internship course (HD FS 490), which helps you with the details of making arrangements for the HD FS internship, HD FS 495B focuses on the academic aspects of the internship experience. This course can be taken during the fall, spring, or summer semester. Currently, HD FS 495B consists of writing three papers; The Organizational Analysis, The Policy Analysis, and The Personal Development Paper. The purpose of the organizational analysis paper is to give the intern an opportunity to learn about his or her internship setting or organization in greater depth than might be possible otherwise. This will necessitate the intern taking an active approach to systematically securing information about the internship organization through the review of relevant documents, conducting formal or informal interviews, and observation. This paper will then be saved at the internship office, without identifying information or grade, to be viewed as a source of information about potential internship sites by future students who are seeking internships.