cainteoir ([info]cainteoir) wrote,
@ 2008-05-27 20:35:00
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Need your thinking caps. . .
Feedback Please!
I proposed an international course to my department head, who loved my idea, but wants me to think of ways to offer the course as an internship rather than an elective -- apparently it would be too much of a pain to write up a new elective course description, but the internship is already written.

So, how can I spin two weeks of intensive Irish literature as an internship?

Ideas?
--K

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[info]cliosfolly
2008-05-28 01:07 am UTC (link)
Usually, in my experience, internships involve some sort of professional development work, in which one learns about a career by performing some of its work.

Would you want to have the class intersect with academic study as a career? This would perhaps entail figuring out a couple "professional development" experiences that students could legitimately participate in at whatever stage you're targeting. Are there any performances that might tie in, which your students could attend and then write (and perhaps explore what it takes to publish) reviews? What about compiling state-of-the-field annotated bibliographies? Is there some sort of project you could develop for which it would be useful to have student labor, and by providing such (plus maybe some discussion meetings hosted by you) they could learn more about what it is like to be a professor, through the lens of the class topic?

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[info]cainteoir
2008-05-28 12:11 pm UTC (link)
Good idea -- I could work something up where the students have to do an annotated bibliography, or some sort of project where they examine the impact of literature on a community -- I would be taking them to Sligo, Ireland, which has a whole little cottage industry centered around W.B. Yeats (well, at least it does two weeks out of the year.)

Thank you!
Much Karmic goodness heading your way!

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