COURSE REQUIREMENTS/ASSESSMENT
For a Grade of A, excellence is required in all written and posted reports. It is the student’s responsibility to submit all work in a timely manner and in an acceptable format for full credit.
- Internship goals, signed by your supervisor 5 points
- Weekly reports 20 points
- Shared Reading 5 points
- Industry research (3 posts) 10 points
- Industry research (5 comments) 10 points
- Student evaluation by Field/Site supervisor 30 points
- Final report (on time and complete) 20 points
Criteria For Assessment
Internship goals, signed by your supervisor
- Choose a suitable work environment within the field of hospitality—club, institution, hotel, restaurant, publishing or consulting firm.
- Discuss the objectives of the internship with your field supervisor (employer).
- Submit your objectives in a memo to your Field Supervisor and ask your Field Supervisor to sign the objectives indicating approval of the objectives.
- Scan and send the objectives memo to your faculty supervisor via email. This must be done by the first week of the course.
Weekly Journals
- Each weekly journal will include a brief summary of the duties and a discussion of the observations and lessons learned, including operations, management and human resources situations. The student should be mindful of their behavior and of what they are learning in the internship process. Students should be aware of the broader picture of the industry and with their professional development.
- Weekly journal entries must be submitted to the instructor before 6 p.m. each Thursday.
- Weekly journals are to be posted on OpenLab addressing issues of your own personal growth, achievements and/or challenges faced throughout your experience.
- Create a post with your name as the title
- Using the visibility feature mark the post as “private”
- This post will be used throughout the semester for your weekly journal submission.
Shared Reading
Walsh, K., M. C. Sturman, and B. Carroll. (2011). “Preparing for a successful career in the hospitality industry. In The Cornell School of Hotel Administration on Hospitality : cutting edge thinking and practice. John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Hoboken, New Jersey.
- Read the article, discuss the article during the initial group meeting.
- Post a comment about how you can use the tools described to become a better professional and work towards your career goals.
Industry Research (3 posts and 5 comments)
- Research a minimum of three articles that are related to your internship and can give you information or provoke thought about your stated career goals.
- Start a blog post on the OpenLab site, write a reaction to the article and add the article as a file or link to the article.
- Read discussions started by your classmates, comment on at least five different discussions.
CRITERIA FOR ASSESSMENT (continued)
Student Evaluation by Field/Site Supervisor
- Download the evaluation form from the File Section of the course profile or provide a link to the electronic version of the form, also in the file section.
- Provide the form (paper of electronic) to your supervisor at the midpoint of the semester.
- The form is to be scanned and emailed to the instructor by the field supervisor only.
- The electronic version will be automatically sent to me.
Final Report (alternate format is an e-portfolio)
- Title Page (APA format)
- Table of contents
- Statement of relevance of internship in view of specific career goals, post internship. (minimum of three pages)
- Briefly state the purpose of your internship and your choice of the internship site. Include educational principles and theories relevant to this experience. Indentify new skills and knowledge you gained, and how you applied these skills in daily situations. Describe new ways you became aware of your own strengths and weaknesses, as well as other meaningful personal insights.
- Updated resume to include internship experience
- Historical profile of the company
- Current company’s organizational chart indentifying your position
- Job description for your position; standard shifts for your position; average salary or hourly wage for your position
- Statement of employee benefits for full time employees; indicate whether union or non-union which unions, if applicable; indicate whether company has an employee handbook
- Copies of all thank you notes to supervisors for your interviews
- Copies of all thank you letters to supervisors and appropriate colleagues, post internship experience. Must be in business letter format (no e-mails)
All Final Reports must be submitted before 2pm, Friday, July 31, 2015. Final reports can be submitted in person, via email as one PDF attachment or as an eportfolio.
