10104157Fashion Internship
Course Information
Description
Internship offers practical work experience to third and fourth semester students in the fashion area. Experiences that cannot be acquired in the classroom environment provide the student with the opportunity to blend theory with practice in an approved work setting.
Total Credits
2
Prior Learning Assessment
  • Experiential-Portfolio

Course Competencies
  1. Conduct oneself with acceptable workplace behaviors that focus on awareness of cultural identity, cultivating inclusivity and implementing culturally relevant services for diverse needs
    Assessment Strategies
    Weekly journals
    Weekly meetings
    Case Studies
    Criteria
    Weekly journals include documentation of acceptable workplace behaviors
    Weekly journals include documentation with anĀ  awareness of cultural identity or cultivating inclusivity
    Weekly journals include implementing culturally relevant services for diverse needs.
    Conduct in weekly meetings is respectful, and inclusive for diverse needs
    Conduct in weekly meetings is timely
    Case studies demonstrate acceptable workplace behaviors
    Case studies include awareness of cultural identity, cultivating inclusivity
    Case studies include implementing culturally relevant services for diverse needs

  2. Negotiate and develop performance objectives for the internship work
    Assessment Strategies
    Weekly journal
    Special Project Proposal
    Criteria
    Weekly journal includes objectives for the week
    Weekly journal includes how objectives will be measured
    Weekly journal includes examples and reasons
    Weekly journal includes documentation of results
    Special Project Proposal includes the project goals
    Special Project Proposal includes the performance objectives
    Special Project Proposal performance measurements
    Special Project Proposal time and action calendar

  3. Develop new skills and abilities in the fashion field, through contacts in the industry and observing areas of business beyond the basic job description with an awareness, knowledge, skills, practices and/or processes needed to function effectively and appropriately with people from other cultures
    Assessment Strategies
    Weekly journal
    Weekly meetings
    Case studies
    Criteria
    Weekly journals include how various work activities and processes needed to function effectively are completed and conducted in a professional and inclusive manner
    Weekly journals demonstrate new skills and abilities through examples and reasoning
    Weekly meetings include how various work activities and processes needed to function effectively are completed and conducted in a professional and inclusive manner
    Weekly meetings demonstrate new skills and abilities through examples and reasoning
    Conduct in weekly meetings is respectful, and inclusive for diverse needs
    Conduct in weekly meetings is timely
    Case studies include how various work activities and processes needed to function effectively are completed and conducted in a professional and inclusive manner
    Case studies demonstrate new skills and abilities through examples and reasoning

  4. Develop and execute a project in the fashion industry with an awareness and self-reflexive understanding of the complex intersectionality of identities that impact perception of self and others
    Assessment Strategies
    Special Project
    E-portfolio
    Criteria
    Special Project
    E-portfolio

  5. Communicate both orally and in writing the planning and analyzing results of work projects with Intercultural communication skills and inclusive language
    Assessment Strategies
    Presentation of Special Project
    Weekly meetings
    Resume
    E-portfolio
    Criteria
    Presentation of Special Project
    Weekly meetings
    Resume
    E-portfolio

  6. Evaluate the relevancy of the Fashion Marketing curriculum through oral and written evaluation with the student, employer and Fashion Marketing instructor
    Assessment Strategies
    Student Midterm and Final Intern evaluations
    Employer Midterm and Final Intern evaluations
    Internship Evaluation- Student
    Internship Evaluation- Employer
    Criteria
    Student Midterm and Final Intern evaluations
    Employer Midterm and Final Intern evaluations
    Internship Evaluation- Student
    Internship Evaluation- Employer