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Undergraduate Students

Internship Responsibilities

For an internship to be successful, all four main participants (the intern, the site supervisor, the faculty sponsor, and CCS itself) must fulfill their responsibilities.

As a student, you have a crucial part to play in ensuring the success of your internship, and you must be prepared to be proactive and use your initiative to ensure that it runs smoothly. It is your responsibility to:

• Prepare an appropriate Learning Proposal
• Register for the internship
• Be punctual, and work the required number of hours, at times agreed to by you and your supervisor
• Notify the workplace if you are unable to attend as planned
• Behave and dress appropriately to the particular workplace
• Respect the confidentiality of the workplace, its clients and its employees
• Check out responsibilities at the work site with the supervisor, and make sure you know what you are expected to do, and how you should behave
  
• Be positive and enthusiastic about the internship; if things are slow, take the initiative, and volunteer for different tasks or other work.
• Discuss any problems with your supervisor and, if necessary, with the faculty sponsor and the CCS staff
• Remember that you are both a guest of the organization, and a representative of the University, and behave appropriately

If you have questions about student responsibilities or overall procedures, please contact CCS by visiting 235 Schine, by phone at 443-3616 or by email.