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Credit-bearing Internships
Internships in Francophone Europe
For qualified students, and with the approval and oversight of the Smith director, credit-bearing internships may be pursued with the organization known as Internships in Francophone Europe. Both full-time and part-time tutorial internships are available. Part-time internships usually carry four credits and are the equivalent of one course. Both options are available spring semester only. These internships require course-work and the writing of a significant final report.
Academic Internships in Biology
With the permission of the Director, and in consultation with their major departments, selected qualified may undertake a four-credit or eight-credit internship in biology with a CNRS or INSERM research team associated with a Parisian university. Students become an integral part of a research team working on projects at the forefront of biological; research, and learn many of the specific techniques used in developmental, genetic, and molecular biology. In addition to conducting experiments, interns are required to read scientific literature in the area of their particular research project, to write summaries of their readings, and to write a year-end report on their work. Most research teams welcome students who are willing to prolong their part-time internships during the year into full-time summer internships (which, for Smith College students, may be supported by Praxis grants). The Director makes every effort to find these internships, but should there be more students seeking these internships than research teams available, students who need the credits to fulfill their biology major have priority.
Non-credit-bearing Internships:
In recent years students have pursued non-credit internships with such organizations as the following:
• Conseil National Français des Arts Plastiques at UNESCO
(translating documents pertaining to the administration of artistic projects in France)
• Institut Nationale d’Histoire de l’Art
• The RPR (Rassemblement pour la République, the antecedent of one of the main French political parties), doing environmental research
• The French Senate
• Time Out Paris (writing its “Music: Rock, Roots & Jazz" column in Pariscope)
• Le Mouvement Français pour le Planning Familial
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