Internship Program
SOCIOLOGY 488
SOCIOLOGY & CRIMINOLOGY INTERNSHIP FOR CREDIT
Who can apply?
Students meeting all three minimum qualifications can be considered for an internship placement.
- Major GPA of 3.0 or higher
- Junior or senior student standing
- Ability to commit at least 10 hours per week during the semester
A field course: doing sociology
| This is a field course, where you are in the driver’s seat of your own exploration as a practicing sociologist. While you are still a student, I’m encouraging you to start thinking of yourself as a sociologist because in this class you will be doing sociology. But you will not be alone. The best way to do any science, social or otherwise, is collaboratively. We will be using our class as a lab to work in supporting each other as we all try to figure out how to plan our research and carry it out, through the collection of our observations and reflection on what we’ve observed. Each week we will make the cycle you see to the left, building our competency, confidence, and critical faculties as we arrive at the terminus when we will write our organizational ethnography. |
Planning → Acting → Observing → ReflectingHow the course works
- Choose your organization. It may be a current workplace or a new placement where you want to gain experience.
- Complete about 10 field hours per week for 3 credits or 20 hours per week for 6 credits.
- Meet Mondays from 12:00–12:50 PM on campus to discuss organizational ethnography and your developing fieldwork.
- Use readings, short weekly writing, observations, and reflection to study workplace power, interaction, and institutional life.
- Build toward a short organizational ethnography as the final project.
Choose a placement that fits your interests
Past placements have included federal and local criminal-legal agencies, research institutes, social service and community organizations, and for-profit workplaces. The placement guide can help you identify possibilities.
VIEW THE INTERNSHIP PLACEMENT GUIDE →
READY TO APPLY?The application is digital. Submit the form and upload your cover letter and résumé all at the same time. APPLICATION DEADLINES November 22 — for spring semester |
Questions?
Dr. Colin Olson, Ph.D.
Department of Sociology and Criminology
MSC05 3080 · 1 University of New Mexico · Albuquerque, NM 87131-0001
Phone: 505-277-2501 · colino@unm.edu
