ECU: Honors-Enhanced Internships

What is Required?
If you are completing an internship for course credit, your Honors-enhanced internship must require work above and beyond what is required by the traditional internship.

Each Honors internship is unique, but students completing Honors-enhanced internships typically:

• spend 45 hours or more on site;
• keep a journal that they share with their faculty mentor; in the journal, students reflect on what they are learning and what they have observed, as well as questions that they are developing about their work experience;
• read and write about at least 4 or 5 recently published scholarly articles relevant to the work their internship.

Proposal Form
Email the Honors Director to get a proposal form.

Due Dates
Proposals for fall and spring semester internships should be submitted no later than the third week of the semester in which the internship is to be initiated. Proposals for summer internships should be submitted no later than Tuesday of the 13th week of the spring semester.

Under special circumstances, the Honors Board make allowances for proposals turned in after the deadline 

Showcase

All students who complete an Honors-enhanced internship are required to make a PowerPoint presentation about their research at the first Honors Showcase scheduled after the completion of their internship.

Faculty responsibilities

Faculty who oversee Honors-enhanced internships provide feedback on student journals, help students locate relevant scholarly literature, review and provide feedback on student research, and help the student rehearse their Showcase presentation about their internships.