Intern Program

Interested in social justice, making campus-wide impacts, contributing to Women's Center growth, making new friends, and personal/professional development?

Become a Women's Center Intern!

Internships are paid positions and interns work an average of 10 hours per week during the academic year. Internship begin in September and go through June.

2010-2011 Internship Applications will be available March 2010

Women's Center interns are an integral part of the Women's Center staff, contributing to the Women's Center mission, developing as student leaders, and providing services and programs around gender and social justice issues. Interning at the Center provides students with hands-on experience developing skills that will be useful to them in the wide variety of fields that they pursue after graduation.

Interns work closely with the professional staff, volunteers and the community and are responsible for programming and coordinating events, educating the campus on gender and social justice issues, creating the quarterly newsletter, and managing the facility. The internship program is one of the most vital aspects of the Center's programs and resources.

Interns play a critical role in Women's Center programming and participate in a variety of programs and outreach events across campus and in the community. The majority of these events provide education, information, and resources to UCSD students.

As the Women's Center has continued to grow, interns have been central to this effort and to the mission and vision of the Center. A primary goal of the internship program is to enhance and support students' academic experience at UCSD. Women's Center interns are able to explore new ways of engaging with their communities in an effort to advance the goals of achieving a more just and equitable society. The learning outcomes that guide the internship program are as follows:

Throughout the course of and at the completion of this internship...

• Interns will be able to make connections between theory and activism while developing a better understanding of the role of women in local, national, and international history.

• Interns will be able to articulate the herstory of the Women's Center on campus and confidently answer the question, Why a Women's Center?

• Interns will be able to challenge misconceptions while exploring why and how feminist activism continues to be relevant in today's world.

• Interns will enhance their knowledge of current events locally, nationally, and internationally, and will be able to further expand their definition of what constitutes a "women's issue."

• Interns will gain a better understanding of themselves and their values through self reflection and dialogue while considering how their actions fit within the larger community.

• Interns will be able to ask questions, analyze arguments, and make connections to enhance their critical thinking skills.

• Interns will be able to identify strategies for affecting change within the University community, as well as the broader global community.

• Interns will be able to discuss a variety of forms of oppression and their interconnectedness, so as to understand themselves and others in ways that move beyond the constraints of stereotypes and labels.

• Interns will be able to use the skills learned during their time at the Women's Center in continuing their work as leaders and agents for social change at UCSD and in the larger community.

Internship Applications

Internship Descriptions