Applying Your Skills

Internships can be seen as mere rites of passage — ways to get some requisite experience to put on the resume before graduating college.

在沃伦威尔逊，实习为你提供了独特的机会来应用你在校园发展的技能与我们的校外社区。Internships are actively integrated into your experience via ourholistic approach to advising, many times as an extension of a service-learning course or work experience.

Take Austin Fust ’17: Like most students at Warren Wilson College, Austin found a way to meet her academic interests while also meeting the needs of her community. She conducted her senior Capstone research project in psychology as an intern at the Black Mountain Neuro Medical Treatment Center — learning the ways music can conjure memories for people with Alzheimer’s disease.

There, she combined the liberal arts underpinning of her psychology program with the hands-on connection to the community to understand how expressive therapies could make an impact on individuals’ quality of life.

You will go beyond the average “learn what an office setting is like” internship — we challenge you to build dynamic programs that live beyond your time as a student.

Internship Benefits

At a school where experiential education is paramount, it’s important to value the outcomes of the deep, engaged learning you can achieve during internships.

That’s why internships are required and count for credit in the following programs:

• Environmental Studies: Environmental Education
• Environmental Studies: Environmental Policy
• Outdoor Leadership
• Psychology
• Social Work

Internships can also meet your work credit requirements and build your capacity for leadership, meeting community engagement expectations, as well.

如果实习是无薪的，你可以申请津贴，以确保所有人都能获得综合的体验式学习。