Liberal Arts Services

Internships

Internship courses are available as part of the class offerings at Women's and Gender Studies. These are individual instruction courses and do not meet in the classroom as lectures do.
Students are responsible for finding their own internships. Resources on campus such as Liberal Arts Career Services, the Career Exploration Center, and the WGS email list serves may help to find an internship.
After finding a place to work as an intern, students must also obtain a faculty supervisor for their internship. CWGS can assist in matching a student with a faculty member based on research interests. This faculty supervisor will be responsible for submitting a grade for the student. According to the Provost’s office - TAs, RAs, and GRAs are ineligible to serve as faculty supervisors.
Once students have an internship and a faculty supervisor, they must fill out and turn in the Internship Proposal and Consent Form (PDF 62K) to the CWGS office in order to be cleared to register for the course.
On the proposal form, the student and faculty member will explain how the student will be graded for the internship course. Some students keep a work journal that they submit for a grade, some turn in a large paper at the end of their internship. Other final grade assignments might include a presentation or a larger project that was done for the organization.

WGS 379L: Internship in Women's and Gender Studies. (Undergraduate)

Experience working in the community or for a nonprofit agency.
Six to nine hours of work a week for one semester.
Prerequisite: At least twelve semester hours of coursework in women's
and gender studies and written consent of the supervising faculty member; consent forms are available in the Center for Women's and Gender Studies.

WGS 384N: Internship in Women's and Gender Studies (Graduate)

Practical working involvement with participating nonprofit and research
agencies. The equivalent of ten class hours a week for one semester.
Offered on the credit/no credit basis only.
Prerequisite: Graduate standing and consent of the graduate adviser.

Conference Course

WGS 394: Graduate Conference Course in Women's and Gender Studies.

Individual directed readings and conferences on selected problems or topics in women's and gender studies.

The Conference Course allows graduate students to work individually with select faculty on specific research problems. The student is responsible for approaching faculty and designing a semester's work.

Conference Course Proposal and Consent Form (PDF 62K)

In the past, students have interned at Safe Place, AIDS Services of Austin, the Gender and Sexuality Center at UT, Women and Their Work Art Gallery, various law offices, NARAL Pro-Choice Texas, Settlement Home, The Ann Richards School for Young Women Leaders, The National Women's Political Caucus, Texas House of Representatives, Whole Women's Health of Austin, Texas Civil Rights Project, ACLU Reproductive Freedom Project in NYC, Texas After Violence Project, with the Human Development and Family Sciences department helping with research on romantic relationships, at UT Psychology in the Gender & Racial Attitudes Lab, the IE Pre-Graduate School Internship, the Hill Country Ride for Aids and Mamma Jamma Ride, and acupuncture fertility clinics.

Many of these internships were obtain through "cold calling." Most community organizations are usually happy to recieve help from college-educated volunteers.