2000-2001 Undergraduate Catalog
Indiana, Pennsylvania 15705

The College of Humanities and Social Sciences

Humanities and Social Sciences departments have extensive internship programs which allow students to engage in supervised off-campus work experience for credit. IUP students have worked in Harrisburg as aides to state legislators, with the Governor’s Justice Commission and the Local Government Commission, and with the Investigations Division, Pennsylvania Department of Justice. Others have worked at correctional institutions in Pittsburgh, Greensburg, and Warrendale, as peer group counselors on the local campus, as assistants to the Pennsylvania state Republican chairperson, as on-site guides at the United Nations, as workers on an Israeli kibbutz, and as student aides for the Department of Education in Puerto Rico. Other students have worked in the Pittsburgh federal probation office. Many students have worked with major political parties and candidates at the local and state levels. At the county level, they have been attached to the offices of the county planner, the Common Pleas Court, the coroner, the treasurer, commissioners, and the borough manager. Students have also worked in the Washington offices of Pennsylvania congressmen and in many federal and international organizations in Washington as well. Opportunities for internships in other countries also exist. For more information about specific internship programs, students should consult with the chair of the department in which the student is majoring.