How does civic engagement differ from an internship?
An internship’s primary purpose is to develop the students’ skills related to a specified field or profession. While internships can include service-learning to supplement students’ academic learning, internships are about civic learning. However, community and civic engagement can be included in an internship experience. The American Democracy Project at Illinois State University states community and civic engagement “can include undergraduate internships or other training programs having as their main focus the production of an immediate civic or social benefit, beyond the potential benefits to the employer or to the students in the form of job training or education.
An internship’s primary purpose is to develop the students’ skills related to a specified field or profession. While internships can include service-learning to supplement students’ academic learning, internships are about civic learning. However, community and civic engagement can be included in an internship experience.
