INTRODUCTION TO THE fieldwork seminar

The Urban Studies Program maintains a strong commitment to the application of theory to practice through the internship for credit. This internship is usually completed in the junior year. "Fieldwork" provides students with the opportunity to work closely with a community group, public agency, non-profit or private organization. At the same time, students participate in a seminar which furnishes opportunities to discuss their experiences in the internship with instructors and other interns. Assignments are designed to structure learning and to link theory and practice. Students develop a learning plan and write essays from the perspectives of organizational culture, organizational management, and academic theory. Based on the goals they set for themselves in the learning plan, students produce a "portfolio" of their work to demonstrate what they have learned.

Recent Participating Organizations include:

• Women's Law Project
• Mayor's Transformation Initiative
• Cushman & Wakefield
• Painted Bride Art Center
• District Attorney's Office
• Central Philadelphia Development Corporation - Center City District
• Philadelphia Public School Notebook
• The Reinvestment Fund
• Philadelphia Health Management Corporation
• Public Interest Law Center of Philadelphia

Information for Agencies:

The Urban Studies program will keep detailed information about your agency on file and in a searchable online online database used by students who are looking for a position to fulfill their fieldwork requirement. In order to make your agency's information available to students, we request that after reading the information on the FIELDWORK FACT SHEET, you fill out the FIELDWORK AGENCY DESCRIPTION FORM and return it to us. These forms will be updated annually.