Professional Internships for Career Development

These are placements in structured settings, which familiarize students with overseas work settings and provide opportunities for practical experience and exposure to actual work situations in international career fields. These may be with U.S. international agencies, local government agencies concerned with energy, health, education, environment, business and/or others that are critical to a country’s infrastructure. In the past, we have had intern placements at Verizon International, Coldwell Bankers, and Coca-Cola just to name a few.

The Internship Practical Experience

Internships provide on the job training in real world situations where undergraduates earn college credit in their major while gaining valuable experience which can lead towards future employment or state certification for teaching. These experiences are organized with:

• U.S. corporations with subsidiaries in the Dominican Republic.
  
  
• International schools
  
  
• U.S government agencies
  
  
• International organizations with offices in the Dominican Republic
  
  
• Government agencies of the Dominican Republic.

Teaching Practicum And Teaching Of English As A Second Language

The study abroad program also provides opportunities for students majoring in education of ESL to satisfy student teaching requirements. Students may teach general subjects in English at private or public primary schools or teach English as a second language from K-12 or at the university level.