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Professional Experience:
Washington
Semester Internships
The
most important component of the Washington Honors Semester is the internship
experience. Unlike most off-campus study programs, Washington
Honors Semester participants do not spend half of their time in conventional
classroom settings. Rather, students intern four days a week for the
entire semester.
Washington
Honors Semester participants
have the option of spending the semester interning with a single office
or dividing
their time at two distinct internships. This flexibility allows students
to maximize the practical benefits and career insights they receive
from the program. The program
also is
unique in terms of the attention students receive in securing their
internships.
Each
student will begin working with the program director months in advance
of the D.C.
semester, first identifying those internship opportunities
that fit best with the student’s interests and professional
objectives and then working to secure those internships.
The
internship opportunities available in the nation's capital are incredibly
diverse and exist in virtually
every discipline. The list below is only
a representative sampling of possible internships.
Past Washington
Honors Semester Internships
Arts
Liz
Lerman Dance Exchange
National Gallery of Art
Wooly Mammoth Theatre
Business
Administration
New
York Life Insurance
General Motors
Toyota
Primark Corporation
Federal Aviation Administration
Alticor Corporation
US Chamber of Commerce
US Office of Consumer Affairs
Communications
Voice
of America
Accuracy in Media
Congressional Quarterly
Cable News Network
The Sojourner Magazine
Economics
Federal
Reserve Board
Congressional Budget Office
Bureau of Labor Statistics
US Trade Representatives
General Accountability Office
Bureau of Economic Affairs
American Bankers Association
World Bank
One Economy Corporation
FINCA International
Environment
National
Park Service
Defenders of Wildlife
Wilderness Society
US Environmental Protection Agency
History
Smithsonian
Institution
Army Corps Historical Center
Marine Corps Historical Center
National Trust of Historic Preservation
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Law
Department
of Justice
American Bar Association
American Civil Liberties Union
Women's Legal Defense Fund
Corporation Counsel
US Supreme Court
Public Defenders Office
International Law Institute
Political
Science
White
House
US Congressional Offices
US Senatorial Offices
Bread for the World
US State Department
Secretary of Defense
Brookings Institution
Center for American Progress
Children's Defense Fund
Human Right's Watch
Mexican Embassy
UN High Commission on Refugees
Religion
Centreville
Presbyterian Church
Knollwood Community Church
New York Avenue Presbyterian Church
Science
and Medicine
NASA
National Institutes of Health
National Association of Realtors
Uniformed Services University of Health Sciences
Northern Virginia Community Hospital
Walter Reed Center for Medical Research
Association for the Advance of Psychology
Kennedy Institute of Ethics (bioethics) at Georgetown
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In their own words...
"The connections I made were influential into my acceptance
into
graduate school
and eventually an asset to my resume as I was hired
as a full-time physical therapist in a specialty area."
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