Internship Syllabus

CSC 387, 388, 389, 380

Professor- Dr. Glenn Wiggins

Catalog Description:

Through the internship program, the student is on the job temporarily in specific public or private professional areas and is under the direct supervision of a faculty advisor. A letter grade is assigned for this work experience. Internships may be arranged for 1,2, or 3( very rarely for 6) hours of credit in the student's academic major.

Purpose:

The goal of the intern is to observe, first-hand, day to day functions and operations of the organization he or she is serving. The intern is to work on meaningful jobs and provide meaningful service to the organization. In addition, it is expected that the intern will learn additional skill sets and techniques that are outside the regular computer science classroom setting. Occasionally the intern may enhance classroom skills through practical applications professional settings.

Guidelines:

Proposal-The intern's duties are to be negotiated with the employer, supervising faculty, and intern. The employer will identify one primary supervisor of the student intern. Upon agreement with the employer , the intern will present a formal proposal describing the internship and related work requirements in detail to the faculty supervisor. This should include any skills to be acquired as the result of the internship. The faculty supervisor will maintain contact with the intern and employer.

Log-The intern will keep a daily log with simple one- or two-line entries that identify daily tasks,

accomplishments, hours worked, skills mastered and any problems encountered. An internship is a laboratory class. Therefore, each intern must invest 1 ½ hours for every hour that he or she would invest in a lecture class. If an intern is earning 1 semester hour credit, he or she must invest 23 hours in the internship by the end of the semester. If an intern is earning 2 semester hour credits, he or she must invest 45 hours by the end of the semester. If a an intern is earning 3 semester hour credits, he or she must invest 68 hours.

Typical skill sets mastered will include but are not limited to:

learning a new programming language, solving a practical problem using a known language, designing a system solution, configuring/managing a network environment, developing a GUI for a client, developing and maintaining or designing a client database, developing a data mining solution, etc.

Grading:

The intern's service is to be evaluated by both the employer and the faculty supervisor, The students log will be presented to the faculty supervisor on a monthly basis. The faculty supervisor will use this log and a joint interview with the intern, the employer supervisor at the internship site in order to determine the students grade. The final assignment of the grade will be the decision of the supervising faculty. .