Internships
The internship in Women’s Studies, WMS 498, offers practical experience and training through a program of work and study within an agency or setting related to the student's principal area of interest. It is designed for students who wish to have WMS internship credit specifically listed on their transcripts as a way of enhancing educational or professional credentials or are interested in women’s issues but whose major or minor disciplines do not offer internship credit. WMS498 allows students to prolong their departmental internship at their site of choice and helps help prepare for a career after UNCW. Students are encouraged to take an active approach to building their professional skills.
The steps embedded in this internship include:
- Preparation for site supervisor review
- Resume review before the initial site supervisor interview and at semester’s end
- Discussion on skills related to WGS, such as grant writing, educational program development and implementation, event planning, counseling practice, and data compilation.
- Best practices in requesting letters of recommendation, in constructing cover letters and résumés, inpreparing for the graduate school application, thesite interview, andfunding requests.
- Mock interviews, if requested
Local sites currently approved for internships include:
- Domestic Violence Shelter and Services (external link)
- New Hanover Community Health Center (external link)
- Planned Parenthood (external link)
- Rape Crisis Center of Coastal Horizons Center, Inc. (external link)
- UNCW Collaboration for Assault Response & Education (CARE)
- UNCW LGBTQIA Resource Office
- UNCW Women’s Studies & Resource Center
- Wilmington Health Access for Teens (WHAT)
- YWCA of the Lower-Cape Fear Region (Wilmington) (external link)
Students interested in enrolling in the internship in Women's and Gender Studies must have junior or senior standing and have completed a minimum of 12 hours in coursework in Women’s Studies or obtain consent of the Women’s Studies coordinator. Area of concentration, requirements, and means of evaluation will be defined in consultation with supervising faculty.
For more information or advising, contact Dr. Michelle Scatton-Tessier scattonm@uncw.edu
Other exciting women’s and gender studies internship opportunities are available throughout North Carolina and the United States.
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