Syllabus 2129

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Communications

Course Description

COMM 2129 - COMMUNICATION INTERNSHIP I

Credit: 1 (1 lecture, 1 lab)

Evaluation of skills/competency provided by both sponsoring company/organization and supervising faculty. Students may repeat course for maximum of four credit hours. Students may register for two sections per semester. Fifteen (15) hours/week applied work in a position related to career goal and degree plan in communications.

Prerequisites

Department Approval

Course Goals (includes core competencies, incorporation of SCANS, etc.)

The Communications Internship Program at HCCS is designed to provide opportunity and experience in communications industries and in communications functions within institutions and private business. Students work a minimum of ten hours a week at job sites under outside supervision, and meet with communications instructor at least once a month during the semester. The instructor will also meet with students at the internship site as arranged with the sponsor. Many internship sponsors require more than ten hours of work per week.

Internships provide invaluable contact time within industry for learning through task and environment, as well as for experience for resumes and opportunities for professional networking. In addition, individual conferences with Communications instructors are important mentoring time for students: for feedback on workplace experiences, to answer questions, and to provide professional guidance in a one-on-one setting.

As most of the internship experience is directly in the workplace, it is important to leave a cogent record of that experience.

Successful internships do a great deal to prepare students for employment in their chosen fields. In many areas of communications, internships are considered a necessary prerequisite for employment. Therefore, both placement and performance are very competitive.

This course fulfills the following core intellectual competencies:
    o Reading
    o Writing
    o Speaking
    o Listening
    o Critical Thinking
    o Computer Literacy

Instructor Information

Gonzalez, Marcelo
Southwest College
L. Scarcella Science & Tech. Center
10141 Cash Road
Stafford, TX 77477
MC 1585-B
Phone: 713-718-6725
FAX: 713-718-6715
E-mail: marcelo.gonzalez@hccs.edu

Textbook Information

No textbook required.

Lab Requirements (if any)

Most of the internship experience is directly in the workplace.

Students with Disabilities

Students with Disabilities: Houston Community College System is committed to compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 (Section 504). Any student with a documented disability (e.g., physical, learning, psychiatric, vision, hearing, etc.) who needs to arrange reasonable accommodations must contact the Disability Support Services Office at the respective college at the beginning of each semester.

Faculty are authorized to provide only the accommodations requested by the Disability Support Services Office.

Academic Honesty

SCHOLASTIC DISHONESTY

Students are responsible for conducting themselves with honor and integrity in fulfilling course requirements. Penalties and/or disciplinary proceedings may be initiated by College System officials against a student accused of scholastic dishonesty.

“Scholastic dishonesty” includes, but is not limited to, cheating on a test, plagiarism, and collusion.

“Cheating” on a test includes:

o Copying from another student's test paper;

o Using materials during a test that are not authorized by the person giving the test;

o Collaborating with another student during a test without authority;

o Knowingly using, buying, selling, stealing, transporting, or soliciting in whole or part the contents of an unadministered test;

o Bribing another person to obtain a test that is to be administered.

“Plagiarism” means the appropriation of another's work and the unacknowledged incorporation of that work in one's written work offered for credit.

“Collusion” means the unauthorized collaboration with another person in preparing written work offered for credit.

VIOLATIONS

Possible punishments for academic dishonesty may include a grade of “0” or “F” on the particular assignment, failure in the course, and/or recommendation for suspension or expulsion will be referred to the College Dean of Students for disciplinary disposition.

Students who wish to appeal a grade penalty should notify the instructional supervisor within 30 working days of the incident. A standing committee appointed by the College Dean of Instruction will convene to sustain, reduce, or reverse the grade penalty. The committee will be composed of two students, two faculty members, and one instructional administrator. A majority vote will decide the grade appeal and its final.

Attendance and Withdrawal Policies

Student must attend class regularly and punctually, missing no more than four and a one-half hours (HCCS Absence Policy: If a student is absent more than 12.5 percent of total class time, the instructor may drop the student.)

It is the student's responsibility to withdraw from a course. (For example if a student simply stops coming to class and considers that the instructor will drop him or her, they should think twice about that. The instructor can give a failing grade to someone who does not officially drop from the class. It is up to the student to take care of the paperwork associatied with withdrawing from a class.

Grading Policy

COMM 2129 Communication Internship I

GRADING POLICY:

o Papers & Journals           40 points
o Employer Evaluation            30 points
o Instructor Evaluation            30 points

TOTAL                    100 points

OFFICIAL GRADE POLICY
Houston Community College System

The Houston Community College System grading system must provide for flexibility in approach to instruction in order to allow instructors to meet the needs of their students and courses. It must also be consistent in its overall grading policy so that students are treated similarly throughout the college. The following criteria should be observed in all courses and divisions.

Final grades in courses at the Houston Community College are as follows:

A	Excellent	90-100
B	Good	80-89
C	Fair	70-79
D	Passing	60-69
F	Failing	0-59
IP	In Progress
W	Withdrawn
I	Incomplete

It is the policy of the Houston Community College instructional area that letter grades A through F can be translated into the numerical ranges listed above. These ranges should be used in all classes in which grades A - F are appropriate.

This policy does not mandate a specific strategy for grading. Any number of kinds of grading scales might be appropriate. They should, however, be able to be equated to the point system; e.g., that system should award an A for 90 to 100 percent of possible points accumulated.

While the final course grade is always a letter, the grades that go into making up that grade should either be numerical or should be translatable into numbers for the purposes of averaging grades. Example: If an A, A-, B+, etc., is to be used as the grade for an essay or report of some kind, the instructor's syllabus should indicate specifically how those grades will be translated into number grades for purposes for purposes of achieving a final average.

Every student who is to receive a letter grade in the range of A - F should also receive a final numerical grade that is the basis for the letter grade.

Course Requirements for example: Testing, Projects, Assignments, Portfolios, Service Learning, Internships, etc.

The course is designed to provide the student with work experience in a field related to his/her major. The course will:

provide the student with fundamental work experience in the field of his/her choosing
enable the student to understand how mass media industries operate.

Pertinent steps in achieving the objectives require the student to:

be prepared to participate in class discussions and complete all assignments.
Attendance at the workplace according to the agreed upon schedule is mandatory
A minimum of 150 hours of work are required during the semester.

Make-up policy

All written work is due at the time noted. Late assignments cost grade points: one letter grade lost for each class session an assignment is late.

Course Content

As most of the internship experience is directly in the workplace, it is important to leave a cogent record of that experience.

Students are required within the semester to complete the following:
1.    Produce a five hundred-word paper outlining your expectations for the course.
(Due September 14, 2001).

2.    Keep a log of daily activities at the workplace, including a paragraph of daily
reflections on those activities.

3.    Daily Log must be signed by the site supervisor and turned into the instructor during the monthly class meeting.

4.    Complete Internship Timesheets. Due with Daily Log at each class meeting.

5.    Write a two hundred word paper reflecting your internship experience through the first half
of the semester. (Due November, 2001).

6.    Write a five hundred word paper reflecting what you have done and learned.
(Due December 14, 2001).

7.    Students must request a written evaluation by the site supervisor to be completed at the end    of the internship. The evaluation must be turned in directly to the instructor, or placed in a sealed envelope and signed across the clap by the supervisor. (Due December 14, 2001).

These written items comprise the student's record of the internship.

QUESTIONNAIRE – COMMUNICATIONS INTERNSHIP

NAME:

Address:

SS#:

Phone: Home:   Work:

Where is your internship?:

Who is your work supervisor?:

Supervisor's Phone Number: (        )   Fax: (        )

What is your schedule of work at your internship location?





What specific area will you be working in ( i.e. production, editing):



By signing below, I acknowledge this course syllabus and
I have read and understood all of the requirements necessary
to complete the COMM 2129 Communications Internship program.

_________________________________________
Student Signature                                    Date

Statement of Workplace and Foundation Competencies
The Broadcast Technology program at the Southwest College of Houston Community College System is determined to prepare you with the knowledge and skill you need to succeed in today’s dynamic work environment. Towards this end, the following workplace competencies and foundation skills have been designed into the curriculum for this course.

COMMON WORKPLACE COMPETENCIES
Exhibit Interpersonal Skills:   C11   Serves Clients/Customers

Course Calendar with Due Dates for Assignments and Testing

WEEK    DATE     ASSIGNMENTS

1        1st meeting, Introduction
2
3        2nd meeting, Pre-Internship Paper Due
4
5        3rd meeting, Daily Log Due
6
6
7        4th meeting, Mid-Term Paper, Daily Log Due
8
9
10
11
12       5th meeting, Daily Log Due
13       6th meeting, Daily Log Due

14       Final meeting
Post-Internship Paper, Daily Log, Evaluation Due

Please note that the instructor may call class meetings on days other than those
scheduled above.

Other Student Information (clubs, tutoring, web resources, student services, etc.)

HCC Student Communication Association - Napoleon Johnson, Faculty Adviser

Law and the Media Seminar
Annual seminar (February) and panel discussions with professional members of the bar and the media to which student lawyers and student journalists are invited.

Texas Community College Journalism Association (TCCJA)
Annual state-wide student journalism conference in October

Texas Intercollegiate Press Association (TIPA)
Annual state-wide student journalism conference in April

Texas Association of Broadcast Educators (TABE)
Annual state-wide student broadcasters conference in September.
Occasionally held in conjunction with the Texas Association of broadcasters (TAB)

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