POSC - 493. Political Communications Internship

This course is designed to expose students to the practice of political communication via an internship experience performing communications tasks for various governmental offices and agencies, political campaigns, campaign strategists, legislators, political candidates, political consulting, speechwriters, political advertising agencies, or lobbying firms. Students will serve as Political Communication interns working 120 to 150 hours during the semester performing duties and responsibilities as determined by the agency supervisor in consultation with the faculty director. Students will be graded based upon the joint evaluation of the agency supervisor and the internship professor. This course may be taken up to two times for credit. Written permission of the internship supervisor is required.

Prerequisite(s): POSC 190 .