MASJE Internship Seminar

THIS COURSE IS CURRENTLY UNDER REVISION

Instructor: Rev. Morgan C. Fletcher

E-mail: mcaruthers@iliff.edu

Office Hours: By appointment

Course Synopsis:

As a requirement of a professional degree, MASJE students complete a 300-hour Internship.

Students may choose to start their internship prior to the summer term, or extend their internship into the fall term; however, the majority of the 300 intern hours must be completed during the summer.
During summer internship, MASJE students enroll in IST4003 MASJE Internship Seminar, a hybrid course.
The hybrid structure of the MASJE Internship Seminar allows students to pursue Denver-based, as well as, non-Denver domestic and/or international internship opportunities.

Course Structure:

Course Objectives & Learning Goals

Democratic Learning Environment:

This course strongly encourages students of diverse backgrounds, politics, religious beliefs, and values to learn together and from one another in a respectful, democratic, and rigorous learning environment.

I understand my role and responsibility to you and the institution as facilitator of a productive learning environment. I also believe that democratic pedagogy supports increased student engagement and learning. Bridging my role as facilitator with a democratic approach and within an institutional setting, I have provided some structures and guidance to facilitate your learning, and welcome and encourage your collaboration on how to best structure our time together. One the first day of class, we will review and negotiate the syllabus. I have included areas within the syllabus where you can make choices about the course content, and welcome additional changes that best fit the learning needs of this particular classroom community.

Due the democratic nature of this course, students are asked to remain flexible as the course schedule may change. Any changes to the course schedule will be discussed and agreed upon as a group, and the updated schedule will be posted to Canvas and sent out to all students by the instructor through a Canvas announcement. As opportunities arise, the class may leave campus during the class meeting time, always returning to campus by the end of our scheduled classroom time.

Course Objectives: As a result of participation in this course, students will:

Develop and practice capacities for self-aware, inclusive, and collaborative leadership within a specific vocational social change context

Analyze and engage social and organizational cultural contexts for increased civic agency and efficacy

Develop a critically reflective and culturally appropriate professional presence

Develop strategies for spiritual formation and self-care

Student Learning Goals: Co-created by students and instructor on the first day of class.

Hold each other accountable to these shared learning goals:

Trusting that there is a purpose, openness to learning together

Developing ability to be honest/real (while in process, don't know everything), be vulnerable, go deep

Understand others and then work across differences

Practice confidential reflection (people, organizations, experiences) & appropriate/professional sharing

Practice self and collective accountability and responsibility (e.g.: 5 whys, addressing conflict rather than avoiding, break down big projects into doable tasks, set interim deadlines in order to meet larger deadlines)

Prioritizing and practicing self care and intentionally organizing our time (e.g.: check in with each other)

Course Overview

Course Objectives

Assignments:

Background Check:

All students in community-based/clinical courses such as Internship and CPE must complete an approved background check in the quarter prior to that in which the internship/CPE begins.

Go to www.securtest.com/iliff to complete the online authorization for your background check by June 1, 11 am.

Please note that you will need to complete the online authorization form in one sitting, and you will need to upload a scanned copy, or cell phone photo, of your driver’s license or other government issued ID. If you are on campus, you may scan your ID at the library for free.

You will need to review your completed background report online for accuracy, respond to any SecurTest iReviewNow questions, and dispute any misleading, inaccurate, or incomplete information within 48 hours from the first notification from iReviewNow or within five business days from the day you complete the online authorization. Please plan accordingly to complete the online authorization when you know you have the time and internet accessibility to respond to the completed background report.

Iliff's Background Check Policy is available for review on the Master's Student Handbook available on my.iliff.edu.
Reflective Journaling
- June 15, 2018
- June 22, 2018
- July 9, 2018
- July 16, 2018
- July 30, 2018
- August 6, 2018
In-person Discussions
- To be Determined by cohort
Provide the Supervisor Evaluation form to your internship supervisor, who will complete a written evaluation of your learning and work. You will add a written response to your supervisor's evaluation before submitting the completed and signed form.

To use the form:
- Login to your Iliff gmail account
- Click on the Supervisor Evaluation form link
- Click "Use this Template" in the upper left corner of your screen. This will create a copy of the template within your personal Google Drive
- You can either share the document using Google Drive with your supervisor if he/she has a Google account, or you can save the form as a word document and email it to your supervisor.
- After your supervisor completes the written evaluation, the two of you should meet to discuss the evaluation in person
- After this in-person discussion, you will write a response to the supervisor's evaluation at the end of the form
- Make sure to include your signature and your supervisor's signature before submitting
- To submit your completed Supervisor Evaluation:

Degree Learning Goals: Please take some time to look over the Professional Degree Learning Goals (MDiv, MASC, MAPSC) and the Academic Degree Learning Goals (MTS, MA).

Incompletes: If incompletes are allowed in this course, see the Master's Student Handbook for Policies and Procedures.

Pass/Fail: Masters students wishing to take the class pass/fail should discuss this with the instructor by the second class session.

Academic Integrity and Community Covenant: All students are expected to abide by Iliff’s statement on Academic Integrity, as published in the Masters Student Handbook, or the Joint PhD Statement on Academic Honesty, as published in the Joint PhD Student Handbook, as appropriate. All participants in this class are expected to be familiar with Iliff’s Community Covenant.

Core Values: As a community, Iliff strives to live by this set of Core Values.

Accommodations: Iliff engages in a collaborative effort with students with disabilities to reasonably accommodate student needs. Students are encouraged to contact their assigned advisor to initiate the process of requesting accommodations. The advising center can be contacted at advising@iliff.edu or by phone at 303-765-1146.

Writing Lab: Grammar and organization are important for all written assignments. Additional help is available from the Iliff Writing Lab, which is available for students of any level who need help beginning an assignment, organizing thoughts, or reviewing a final draft.

Inclusive Language: It is expected that all course participants will use inclusive language in speaking and writing, and will use terms that do not create barriers to classroom community.

MASC Degree Learning Goals:

Students will...

Demonstrate a complex interdisciplinary understanding of historical and contemporary social change strategies and movements;

Develop and practice an inclusive and collaborative approach to social change leadership; and

Demonstrate the cultural capacity and organizational skills necessary for civic agency and efficacy in diverse social, political and educational institutions.

Date	Day	Details
Jun 01, 2018	Fri	DUE: Background Check	due by 05:00PM
Jun 04, 2018	Mon	Final Internship Agreement	due by 05:59AM
Jun 16, 2018	Sat	Reflective Journal #1	due by 05:59AM
Jun 23, 2018	Sat	Reflective Journal #2	due by 05:59AM
Jul 10, 2018	Tue	Reflective Journal #3	due by 05:59AM
Jul 17, 2018	Tue	Reflective Journal #4	due by 05:59AM
Jul 31, 2018	Tue	Reflective Journal #5	due by 05:59AM
Aug 07, 2018	Tue	Reflective Journal #6	due by 05:59AM
Aug 14, 2018	Tue	DUE: Supervisor Evaluation	due by 06:00PM