The Academic Seminar & Workshop

Your internship abroad begins with a fast-paced 10-day seminar in Washington, D.C., featuring site visits, guest speakers, academic work and other programming tailored to London. Past activities have included:

• An interview workshop
• A visit to the British Embassy
• A walking tour of the Kennedy Center
• A tour of the Capitol Building and meeting with the House Parliamentarian
• A discussion and comparative analysis of government scandals in the U.K. and the U.S.
• A mock “Prime Minister’s Questions” in the style of the U.K.’s parliament

Each seminar has a set of themes, such as:

• Homelessness
• The environment
• Political economy
• History, architecture and public spaces
• Immigration

You'll continue to explore these themes through your academic work and internship course abroad.

Learning Through Internships

The seminar will continue when you are abroad in the form of an "internship course" comprised of weekly class meetings. This is an educational experience that gives you the opportunity to apply classroom learning to the workplace and social environment of the host culture, to expand professional skills and earn academic credit. Themes that will be examined as part of this course include:

• Leadership
• Communication
• Gender
• Multiculturalism
• Media, Law and Politics
• Social Justice and Urban Challenges

Your time abroad will culminate in the creation of a substantive portfolio of work completed for both the Washington, D.C. seminar and the Learning Through Internships course.