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Philosophy Internship Programs for Undergraduates

Does your philosophy department have an internship program, whereby an undergraduate can get credit for being an intern with a non-university organization or business?

The question comes from a reader whose department is considering starting an internship program, as there appears to be student demand for them, and departments in other disciplines offer them for their majors and minors.

Further questions:

If you do have such a program, what does it provide for the students participating in it? And what must the students do, apart from their activities as an intern, to get credit for it? Is there anything about the program—where it places students, what is asked of the students, etc.—that has much to do with philosophy?

Readers?

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