社区发展实习

As part of the college’s commitment to acknowledging Christ’s pre-eminence, the Department of 经济学 和 社区发展 desires to declare, discern, 和 unfold Christ’s Lordship over all things. The research internship is one component of the department’s efforts to equip students to develop a biblical perspective on the realities of poverty 和 development in the world. Research internships are experiential tools that can promote the skills, knowledge, 和 values that will enable students to progress toward maturity in their identity in Christ.

All community development majors are required to complete a 12-24 week research internship, which normally takes places after the students’ junior (third) year, during the months of May to November. Department faculty work with students 和 partners in the field to design, support, 和 evaluate these research internships. The internship gives students the opportunity to apply the theory, techniques, 和 research methods of their coursework by working in the context of less developed regions in the U.S or in an international context. Department faculty work with students to design 和 implement research projects related the work being undertaken by their host organizations in a less developed community.

研究实习是：

• a required 12-24 week, 3-12 credit course for community development majors at a site away from 威尼斯人平台
• an intense learning experience for integrating theory 和 practice, deepening underst和ing, 和 challenging students
• 一个深入社区发展领域的机会
• 包括研究和工作经验，而不仅仅是研究或工作经验
• 每周至少40小时的全职工作经验

To make the most of this experience, students must be diligent 和 committed to all of the work for the host organization, research design, 和 course requirements. A research internship is not a vacation.

学生实习的学习目标

The research internship will contribute to the student’s learning of specific knowledge, attitudes, 和 skills that are important in the community development field. The following lists outline the department’s expectations in each area.

知识

1. Underst和ing of the relevancy 和 application of development theory 和 sector-specific interventions to the practice of community development
2. 了解组织/教会和他们的事工
3. 了解自己的特点、能力和文化框架
4. 了解在教会或组织中帮助他人和与之合作是多么困难

的态度

1. 感激和尊重他们所服务的人
2. 欣赏用圣经的观点思考
3. 重视他们在课堂上学到的东西
4. 个人特征包括：
5. 对自己和自己的想法保持谦卑
6. 把别人看得比自己好
7. 仆人的
8. 灵活性
9. 以积极的方式运用自己能力的信心
10. 被反射
11. 敞开心扉
12. 好奇心
13. 对自己的学习负责

广泛的解决问题的技能，包括

1. Beginning to learn how to work with individuals, a church/organization, 和 a community in a different cultural 和 socioeconomic setting:
2. Research skills that include conceptualizing a research question(s), collecting data, summarizing 和 analyzing data, 和 reporting findings.
3. 在东道组织的干预措施中正在使用特定部门的技能。
4. Cross-cultural interpretation 和 navigation skills that include but are not limited to asking good questions, listening, 和 responding appropriately.
5. 在教会/组织中使用的管理和行政技能。
6. 把别人的利益看得比自己的利益更重要。

Research internships also provide students with an opportunity to learn 和 experience a number of other things that can include:

1. 通过与穷人一起生活和工作，体验他们的生活；
2. 跨文化友谊;
3. 走出舒适区；
4. 体验跨文化背景下的整体事工；
5. Capstone项目的想法和数据；
6. 与接待员工或威尼斯人平台教师建立师徒关系；
7. 履行威尼斯人平台的跨文化要求
8. 对该领域有动力、热情和专业的定位；
9. 对可能进一步的学术或专业追求的想法；
10. 确定生活工作的性质； 和
11. 可能导致未来就业和/或咨询的关系。

什么是主办机构？

A host church/organization can be any church or organization that is working holistically with economically impoverished people in the U.S. or internationally. It is best if the host organization shares the department’s goal of holistic reconciliation of relationships (people to God, self, others, 和 creation) 和 is conducting or desires to conduct development activities rather than solely mercy ministries or relief activities.

主办机构期望的结果

While results will vary from student to student, we desire that hosts can benefit from student internships in the following ways:

1. Receive introductory 和 tentative answers to some research questions that the host organization might have about its ministries.
2. The student can provide some of the difficult work, particularly in research, that the organization could not easily afford or find time to do on its own.
3. The student could provide a new set of eyes that could be useful as a sounding board for ministry strategies.
4. The student will become a friend 和 prayer partner of people in the host organization 和 the community.
5. 该学生将成为该组织事业的倡导者。

主办机构的责任

1. The church/organization must have some question, issue, or problem which they would like to learn more about via intentional research to be done by the student.
2. The church/organization must complete a research proposal (1-page form to be provided) which will help express the church’s/organization’s desire for the research 和 begin the process of designing the research.
3. 主办单位须与威尼斯人平台签订实习协议。
4. Help find housing for the student, ideally in the target community of the host church/organization 和 at the economic level of the members of the community.
5. Work with a host family to determine the amount the student should pay for room 和 board 和 inform the student in advance.
6. 如果需要翻译人员，确定学生可以雇佣的翻译人员。 (Ideally the translator should be the same sex as the student.)
7. Let the student know in advance if the student should contribute any funds to the overhead costs of the host organization.
8. Support the student in the research, provide supervision 和 oversight of the progress on the research, 和 help the student identify a sample population for research.
9. 每隔一到两周与学生见面，以进行监督和支持。
10. Arrange a time for the student to present his/her research findings to the organization at the end of the internship.
11. 向威尼斯人平台学生的学术导师提交一份主持人评估表。