HENRY WELLS SCHOLARS' REQUIREMENTS

(First year WLLS 190 and Junior/Senior Field Experience)

FIRST YEAR (NORMALLY)

WLLS 190, LIBERAL ARTS PRACTICUM – REQUIREMENTS

 

1. Log of activities:

You will be expected to spend approximately the equivalent of a full-time work week (35-40 hours) for each semester hour of academic credit.

Write a summary of what you did on a daily and/or weekly basis. As a preliminary step it may be helpful to keep a daily journal of what you did each day and build your log of activities using the highlights of these daily experiences. Your faculty sponsor will discuss with you the formality and detail he or she requires for the log.

 

2. Essay on the liberal arts in the world of work:

Write a well-constructed essay (4-6 pages) in which you relate your experience to your liberal arts education. As preparation for this essay and as a springboard for your thoughts and the formulation of a thesis that you will argue in your paper, use the short readings (copyright clearance/permission through the Copyright Clearance Center):

Martha Nussbaum, Cultivating Humanity:A Classical Defense of Reform in Liberal Education, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1997, pp. 8-11.

Everett Dean Martin, The Meaning of a Liberal Education, New York, W.W. Norton, 1926, pp. vii-viii and 160-61.

Howard Fischer, letter to the editor, "Trouble from a Literary Reference," New England Journal of Medicine, September 23, 1999, p. 1006.

Michael Schulhof, "Why Business Needs Scientists," Scientific American, November 1992, p. 138.

And the dictionary entries:

"liberal arts," "trivium," and "quadrivium" from pp. 778, 1432, and 1098 of Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 3rd edition, Victoria Neufeldt and David B. Guralnik, eds., New York, Macmillan, 1997.

"liberal arts" from Webster’s Random House College Dictionary, New York, Random House, 1991.

In preparation for your essay you might also think of such questions as: What are your goals for your education? What could you say about how this experience helped you explore those goals? What aspects of your education did you expect to use in WLLS 190, and what unexpected aspects of your education did you use? What is essential to a liberal arts education, and how do those elements relate to the world outside your classes that you experienced?

And the webpage:

http://www.lclark.edu/dept/public/liberalarts.html

 

3. Portfolio:

Attach items to illustrate your internship site or a sample of your work (e.g., photos, brochures, lesson plans you worked on, part of a database you worked on).

 

HAND IN ITEMS 1, 2, AND 3 TO YOUR FACULTY SPONSOR with a cover sheet that includes your name and address, sponsoring organization name and address, sponsor's name and title. Your faculty sponsor will use these materials, along with your on-site sponsor's evaluation (see #4), as a basis to assign your grade of S (satisfactory) or U (unsatisfactory) for WLLS 190. THESE MATERIALS WILL BE DUE IN EARLY FEBRUARY FOR STUDENTS TAKING WLLS 190 IN JANUARY.

 

4. Evaluation from your on-site sponsor and your evaluation:

Career Services will send an evaluation form to your on-site sponsor, and the sponsor will return it to Career Services. A copy of the evaluation will be sent to your faculty sponsor. You should ask your faculty sponsor if it was received. Career Services will also send you a form to fill out about your internship, which will be added to the internship database. Please return this form as soon as possible in February.

 

5. Meeting(s) with your faculty sponsor:

Your faculty sponsor will meet with you in advance of your WLLS 190 experience and will "de-brief" you afterwards. The format and level of formality of these meetings will be determined by your faculty sponsor.

 

6. Discussion/celebration of the WLLS 190 experiences:

There will be a celebration for participants and sponsors of WLLS 190 in February. This workshop will also be an opportunity for you to share and to celebrate with other students your experience and its connection with your liberal arts education. At this celebration a prize for the best essay (#2) will be awarded, based on faculty sponsor nominations.

 

IMPORTANT NOTE: If any problems, complications, questions arise in January, please do not hesitate to call the Career Services Office, 315-364-3225 or email careers@wells.edu.

 

 

AS JUNIORS OR SENIORS:

HENRY WELLS SCHOLARS FIELD EXPERIENCE

 

After several meetings, the Admissions and Financial Aid Committee voted unanimously in favor of the following recommendations for the Henry Wells Scholars Field Experience. The committee asked that these recommendations be taken to APPC for discussion and further support.

After further discussion at APPC, the committee unanimously voted in favor of the spirit of these recommendations.

Outcomes/Projects

It was recommended that the outcomes and projects be comparable to the ones students are already completing during their internships.

Duration

After a lengthy discussion, it was agreed that the a committee would make decisions related to duration based on the student’s proposed experience. It was agreed that January was not an acceptable time to do these experiences as the duration was too short and that the experiences would generally occur during the semester or summer break (approximately 10 weeks).

Review/Assessment

It was agreed that Wells use the same Review/Assessment model it currently has in place for the field experiences.

Other:

The group agreed that the experiences should be reserved for students having junior and senior standing and should be linked to the students’ academic interests whether it is a credit or non-credit.

The student must be in good academic standing, must have done a short (January) internship, and have declared a major.

It was agreed that the $3,000 stipend could not be used toward a study-abroad program alone, that the program must also include a field experience.

 

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