For more than 30 years, the Center for Global Education and Experience (CGEE) at Augsburg College has customized travel programs throughout Latin America, Southern Africa, Cuba, Europe and Vietnam for a variety of audiences. Programs are experiential and seek to foster critical analysis of local and global conditions so that personal and systemic change takes place leading to a more just and sustainable world. CGEE’s programs are rooted in community-based learning, which offers direct dialogue between participants and members of local communities.
CGEE internships offer real-world experience paired with courses designed to facilitate students’ knowledge of the global workforce. In an increasingly globalized world, an international internship is one of students’ strongest assets when pursuing future employment. Academic internships involve at least 112 contact hours with the agency or organization as well as at least 20 hours of class time. Students must commit to other coursework, homework, and readings related to their internship.
Sample Internships:
- Serve as a health educator with a local HIV/AIDS prevention organization
- Assist a business in exploring international marketing strategies
- Document human rights violations for an independent commission
- Contribute research and articles for a bimonthly feminist magazine
- Work with an organization dedicated to sustainable and ethical urban development
- Teach English classes
- Work alongside a traditional healer as herbal medicines are made
Programs offering an internship component:
Mexico
- Crossing borders: Gender and Social Change in Mesoamerica (Fall)
- International Business and Global Citizenship (Fall)
- Migration, Globalization and the Environment (Spring)
- Social Work in a Latin American Context (Spring)
- Language and Culture (Summer)
In all Mexico programs, students studying business, healthcare, ministry, or women’s studies can combine an internship in their field with a specialized Spanish course, such as Business Spanish, Spanish for Healthcare Professionals, Spanish for Ministry, or Contemporary Latin American Women.
Southern Africa
- Nation-Building, Globalization, and Decolonizing the Mind: Southern African Perspectives (Fall or Spring)
Why Choose CGEE Internship?
- Placements are made with agencies that have expressed a need for an interest in receiving a student. In addition to meeting the professional and personal needs of the students, internships are designed to foster reciprocal relationships between the student, the organization, and CGEE.
- Internships are paired with a seminar in order to integrate you professional experience with what you are learning in college and while abroad.
- Internships provide an opportunity for individual students (outside of the group program) to interact with local people one-on-one. This heightens cultural understanding and allows for a deeper awareness of global work environments.
- Students receive orientation and ongoing support for their internships from CGEE faculty and staff.
Center for Global Education and Experience
(612)330-1159
globaled@augsburg.edu
centerforglobaleducation.org