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Building And Sustaining Undergraduate English Internship Programs During And After The Covid-19 Pandemic, Allegra W. Smith, Jordan N. Canzonetta, Kate Fedewa, Kate Birdsall

Journal of University Teaching & Learning Practice

Experiential learning opportunities (Kolb, 1984; Simons et al., 2012), such as internships, provide valuable real-world learning experiences for undergraduate students. Internships are especially important for students majoring or specialising in writing, who can gain valuable workplace experience and build portfolio pieces from working for a company or organisation. The COVID-19 pandemic and resulting social distancing measures forced internship experiences to shift to remote and hybrid opportunities. In this article, four faculty from three universities in the United States detail the ways that they pivoted their undergraduate writing internship programs to adapt to public health requirements and changing student needs between …