Other Internship Opportunities

• Instead of participating in an internship program like the Missouri Government Internship or the Washington Center Internship, many students choose more individual internship experiences.

• Rather than being placed in an internship by the university, here students must contact the official or organization with whom they desire to work and to seek their permission to intern. Many of these internships take place over the summer, though students may choose to do them during a fall or spring semester.

• A wide range of internship opportunities are possible here. In the past, Truman students have interned this way in the White House, with Senators and Representatives on Capitol Hill, in federal, state and local agencies, in the offices of their local mayors or city managers, or with environmental or civil rights organizations.

• The number of credit hours that you earn here will vary depending on the nature of the internship and the amount of time that you spend on the job. These experiences earn students anywhere from 4 to 15 credit hours. Like other internships for political science credit, these hours can be used to fill Required Support, or 3 hours can be applied as elective credit in the major and the rest distributed among Required Support and Free Electives.

• You must still be supervised by a political science member to received academic credit for the internship, so be sure and contact one of your favorite professors and have him or her agree to supervise you well before the internship begins.