GGY 498—Internship in Geography

Fall 2007 and Spring 2008, Dr. Hines, 3 credits

The Geography Internship course is designed to give students practical experience as professional geographers.  Students who meet the following requirements may enroll with the professor’s permission.

Enrollment criteria: 

1. Student must have junior or senior standing.

2. Student must have the prerequisites of GGY 270 (Planning) and/or GGY 220 (Cartography) and/or GGY 328 (GIS).

3. Student must have an overall 2.5 GPA.

4. Student must secure his or her own employment in a position with an approved agency.

Course requirements: 

1. Employment must be secured for a period of at least three months for at least ten hours per week.  Work can be on a paid or volunteer basis.  If paid, the student will negotiate the salary with the employer.

2. The employer must agree in writing to hire the student for the specified time and to  participate in monitoring of the student’s progress.

3.  The student must meet with the professor and, if feasible, with the other interns once a month at a time to be agreed upon to participate in discussions about their work.

4.  The student will be visited at work over the course of the semester by the professor, who will monitor their progress on the job.

5.  The student will write a professional report at the end of the semester, chronicling their job and the agency that they worked for. 

Grades are Pass/Fail and will be based on job performance as described by the student’s immediate supervisor, weekly reports and participation with other interns and the final professional report.

A list of approved participating agencies is available to qualified students from Dr. Elizabeth Hines,

UNCW Department of Geography & Geology,

124 DeLoach Hall, 962-3012, hinese@uncw.edu.