Guidelines for Internship Site Supervisors

Anthropology Internship Coordinator: Dr. Maureen Hays ​haysm@cofc.edu

The internship is an important component of our anthropology program, enabling students to apply their academic knowledge to situations outside of the classroom. Faculty find that students who participate in internships demonstrate more self-confidence and greater insight than other students.  Organizations who work with interns often find they have an opportunity to accomplish additional tasks that would be impossible with current staffing. In short, we have found internships to be a win-win situation for all involved.  

Your role as an internship supervisor is to provide adequate orientation, training, and supervision for your intern. Internships are learning experiences and the more exposure interns can have to your work, in reasonable depth, the better their education will be, and the more valuable they will be to you. The most successful internships are those with the least idle time and work opportunities commensurate to the student's skills.   Evaluation of the Anthropology Internship:

1. Interns are expected to work closely with their on-site supervisor and other organizational personnel.  

2. Since internship credit is variable, ranging from one to six credits, the amount of time spent interning varies. Generally, three hours of internship per week are required for one hour of academic credit; a typical three credit internship requires nine hours of internship placement per week or 120 hours per semester.

3. Interns are evaluated by two people: the on-site supervisor and the professor serving as the anthropology internship coordinator.

4. An intern's grade is based on a combination of the on-site supervisor's evaluation of his or her work (via discussion and a rating form provided to you) and the evaluation by the internship coordinator of a journal and log kept by the intern. Click for Internship Journal Instructions.