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CMAT 407 - Internship

Reinforces and builds upon skills and knowledge by providing on-the-job experience. Toward the end of the degree program, each student works with an advisor to select an internship either in a department of the University or with an outside organization. This course gives students an "inside look" at the type of career they're interested in pursuing. Students have served internships with numerous organizations including the following:

  • AAA of Maryland

  • American Red Cross

  • Babe Ruth Museum

  • Baltimore Arena

  • Baltimore Museum of Art

  • Citicorp

  • Comcast Cable

  • Federal Reserve Bank

  • Harford County Media Resources

  • Maryland State Police

  • National Aquarium

  • Storage USA

  • University of Maryland Shock Trauma Center

  • UPS

  • Westinghouse

  • WHSW-TV

    • Note: Senior status and approval of program director required.

    1. An up-to-date, ongoing (daily, etc.) journal which describes day-to-day tasks, your reactions to what you see and do, and any observations and insights you have about the job. (What things surprised you? Interested you? frustrated or bored you? etc.) This journal should be submitted to Dr. Shorr during the first week of every month during the internship.

    2. Copies of representative work which you produce or have a significant role in producing (news releases, PSA's, scripts, tapes, articles, posters, etc.).

    3. A three or four page paper, at the conclusion of the internship, which analyzes the communication structures --formal and informal-- within this organization. (If the head of the organization hired you as a communications consultant, what advice --as well as praise-- would you offer him/her?)

    4. Midterm and final conferences with your internship advisor.

    5. Letter from the site supervisor verifying your successful completion of the internship. That letter should at least say that you completed the necessary hours and performed satisfactorily. The letter may, of course, go into much more detail.

     

     

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