Internship Seminar

Students are required to participate in a weekly 3-hour seminar that helps them process their learning during the internship. This seminar is broken into four courses, each with a different focus and course requirements.

HOD 2900, Internship in Human and Organizational Development
This includes the credit for the site participation (32 hours per week). Graded items/deliverables include attendance on site, evaluations, and a site assessment report.

HOD 2910, Advanced Internship Seminar
This course assesses the students' ability to apply self-directed learning skills in an organizational learning situation and to use key theories of human and organizational behavior to understand, evaluate, and respond to personal work experiences. Deliverables include the learning plan and a learning portfolio.

HOD 2920, Theoretical Applications
This course assesses students' ability to demonstrate the competencies associated with the analysis portion of the organizational development/action research processes. Deliverables include organizational analysis reports, a S.W.O.T analysis, and business cases.

HOD 2930, Senior Project
This course assesses students' ability to demonstrate the problem solving and project management competencies associated with the organizational development/action research process. Deliverables include senior project proposals, project reports, and the senior project.