EAP Internships, Research Projects, and Service Learning Opportunities

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EAP Internships, Research Projects, and Service
Learning Opportunities

• Scott D. Cooper, Joyce Falk, Melody Knutson,
  Karen Mead, Barbara Tassielli, and Chris Zwicke
• Presented at the 2007 EAP Annual Conference

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Objectives

• Introduce concepts and terminology
• Present existing EAP models and processes
• Discuss best practices for promotion, advising,
  facilitation and integration

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Experiential Education Study Abroad

• Hands-on learning experiences in other cultures
  and contexts, promoting the intellectual,
  professional, and personal growth of students.

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EAP Models

• Integrating research into regular courses
• Stand alone research or internship
  courses/projects
• Programs focused on research or internships

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Special Study Project Process

• Preparation Coursework and training, advice and
  mentoring, at home and abroad
• Proposal Question, context, methods, expected
  results, products, timeline, approval
• Conduct project Execute plan, record, reflect,
  discuss, evaluate regular meetings with mentor
• Products Papers, presentations, creative works
• Post-return Continued research/work, Honors or
  Senior theses

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Promotion Integration

• Informing students of research and internship
  possibilities abroad, through academic units or
  international offices
• Integration of programs into the curriculum
• Capturing research or internship products and
  testimonials
• Grant and award programs for student research
  abroad

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EAP Awards for Undergraduate Research

• Notification of program and deadlines in late
  fall and early spring
• Applications (due in spring)
• Nomination form
• Outline and summary
• Faculty recommendation
• Three 1000 awards
• Humanities
• Social Sciences
• Sciences Engineering

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Sample Elective Special Study Projects

• Kangaroo ecology Australia
• Ecotourism impacts Costa Rica
• Excavation of Etruscan ruins Italy
• Womens rights Chile
• Rural development Thailand
• Historic building preservation India
• The EU constitution and France

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Required Special Study Projects (Ghana)

• Challenges for women politicians and writers
• Visual culture and sociology of AIDS
• Impacts of refugee camps on villages
• Traditional textiles and Ghanaian culture
• Effects of globalization on a fishing village
• Ghanaian cinema, dance, and art
• Recycling and waste management

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Tropical Biology Program, Monteverde Institute,
Costa Rica

• Orientation field trip
• Curriculum
• Tropical diversity course
• Community ecology course
• Spanish language class
• Home stay
• Independent research project

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Monteverde Research Projects

• Required reading
• Training in research methods
• Close mentoring
• Training in writing papers and giving
  presentations
• Final papers and symposium

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Monteverde Success Stories

• EAP Project
• Moth behavior
• Toxin effects on bats
• Vectors of leishmaniasis
• Ecology of euglossine bees
• Bromeliad fungal associations

• Now
• Co-founder, Ecology Project International
• Ph.D. student, Stanford
• Health/HIV specialist
• Professor, VPI
• Graduate student, Cornell

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Mexico Field Research Program

• Curriculum, first 6 weeks
• In Mexico City
• Methods course
• Contemporary Mexico course
• Spanish class
• Independent research, next 9 weeks
• Field projects at many sites in Mexico
• Weekly meetings with faculty mentors
• Final paper

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Mexico FRP Success Stories

• Now
• UCLA medical student
• UC Ph.D. student, NSF grant, vanilla genetics,
  Yucatan
• UC grad student, history, Mexico
• Published poet
• Economics grad student

• EAP Project
• Mixtec health practices, Oaxaca
• Ethnobotany, Merida
• Archaeology, burial practices, Yucatan
• Contemporary Zapotec poetry
• Effects of foreign investment on the Mexican
  economy

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Internship Programs

• Germany
• University of Potsdam
• German language training in spring, German ILP in
  summer
• Three-month internship Fall
• Georg-August University, Gottingen
• Regular coursework, optional language training -
  Fall
• Three-month internship - Winter
• Costa Rica
• Spanish ILP, then regular coursework in spring at
  UCR
• Followed by six-week internship (July August)
• Italy
• Service learning options in Siena Rescue and
  social services, ESL, art docents

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For More Information

• http//eap.ucop.edu/eap/discipline/internships.htm