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_{A Tailored Internship}

The Washington Center maintains ties with more than 1,000 internship sites in the governmental, international, business and nonprofit sectors. With help from TWC’s professional staff, students choose a substantive, supervised internship tailored to their academic and professional interests and needs. An Academic Course Between 35 and 50 academic courses are offered every semester, in a range of disciplines and interdisciplinary areas. Students choose one course which they take for three hours, one evening a week. Faculty are highly qualified academics and are often also practitioners in their field. A full course guide with faculty biographies is available on request. _{The Leadership Forum}

Students’ internships and academic study are enriched with some remarkable programming not possible for programs of a smaller scale. At the Alan K. Simpson - Norman Y. Mineta Leaders Series students hear from and question members of the cabinet, ambassadors, leading journalists and CEOs. The Public Policy Dialogues on Capitol Hill program enables students to meet in smaller groups with Members of Congress or their staffs. All students carry out a civic engagement project in an area of personal or professional concern. To document, analyze and reflect on the internship experience, students also complete an academic portfolio.