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Jean Picker
Semester-in-Washington
Director of the
Jean Picker Semester-in-Washington Program
Donald Baumer
dbaumer@email.smith.edu
The Jean Picker Semester-in-Washington
Program is a first-semester program open to Smith junior and senior government
majors and to other Smith juniors and seniors with appropriate background
in the social sciences. It provides students with an opportunity to study
processes by which public policy is made and implemented at the national
level. Students are normally resident in Washington from the June preceding
the semester through December.
Applications for enrollment
should be made through the director of the Semester-in-Washington Program
no later than November 1 of the preceding year. Enrollment is limited
to 12 students, and the program is not mounted for fewer than six.
Before
beginning the semester in Washington, the student must have satisfactorily
completed at least one course in American national government at the
200 level selected from the following courses: 200, 201, 202, 206, 207,
208, and 209. In addition, a successful applicant must show promise
of capacity for independent work. An applicant must have an excess of
two credits on her record preceding the semester in Washington.
For satisfactory completion
of the Semester-in-Washington Program, 14 credits are granted: four credits
for a seminar in policymaking (411); 2 credits for GOV 413, seminar on
political science research; and eight credits for an independent research
project (412), culminating in a long paper.
No student may write
an honors thesis in the same field in which she has written her long paper
in the Washington seminar, unless the department, upon petition, grants
a specific exemption from this policy.
The program is directed
by a member of the Smith College faculty, who is responsible for selecting
the interns and assisting them in obtaining placement in appropriate offices
in Washington, and directing the independent research project through
tutorial sessions. The seminar is conducted by an adjunct professor resident
in Washington.
Students
participating in the program pay full tuition for the semester. They
do not pay any fees for residence at the college, but are required to
pay for their own room and board in Washington during the fall semester.
Picker
2008 Application Form
Picker
Reference Form
Description
Sheet Fall 2007
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