Global Health Internship

3 Credits · Level: Undergraduate

This senior elective pairs a semester-long, part-time internship with a series of structured group reflection sessions held every three weeks throughout the semester. Students are placed with a global health or community-level organization in the Washington, DC area and commit to a minimum of 10-12 hours per week - approximately 140-160 hours over the course of the semester. The reflection sessions bring the cohort together to share and process their individual internship experiences, offer peer support, and examine their professional development in an honest and structured way. There is no lecture content, and the sessions are student-driven and guided by reflection prompts. The course is grounded in a simple but demanding premise: that learning happens when experience is examined carefully. Students are expected to show up to their internships with full commitment and to their reflection sessions with honesty and curiosity about what they are discovering about the work, about organizations, and about themselves.