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Internships and Volunteering

Depending on your interests, there are numerous options for taking your intellectual interests outside the classroom.

Internships

Internships can also be great ways for students to explore new environments, link their studies to real-world problems, pursue independent research, and develop ideas for projects such as senior theses.

Finding an Internship

Finding an Internship

In addition to exploring the Internships for Credit above, you can meet with staff at Northwestern Career Advancement about internship options.

With some planning ahead, any work experience can be reconceived as an internship. Talk to your departmental and College Advisers for some suggestions about this and about how an internship can further your academic interests and goals.

Volunteering

Volunteering is a worthwhile and enriching experience that provides an opportunity to become a part of a community, to help those in need, and to learn and practice skills of your own. It can be as meaningful to you as it is to those you help.

Volunteering can also give your academic work palpable form by letting you explore options for your future and can prepare you for your post-Northwestern career. Someone studying economics and gender could connect with a domestic violence shelter. A student who wants to be a doctor could volunteer at a hospital or with a group planning a walk to raise money for cancer research. A student writing a thesis about racial identity in literature could volunteer with an advocacy organization related to issues explored in the thesis.

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