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Status

Open

Estimated Completion Time

To enroll in this offering students must also be enrolled in the corresponding UNH offering. See UNH offerings for registration deadlines.
https://www.iol.unh.edu/stem/hightech-bound

Overview

The Micro-Internship offering extends your learning into the real world and allows you to learn from a professional of your choice either in person or virtually.  You will perform research on a particular career field, including the various pathways into a specific career, and use your connection with your chosen professional to determine an authentic product or deliverable to demonstrate your understanding of the outcomes of this career.

You should either have already secured a professional or have some ideas regarding a professional you will be working with prior to starting.

Students will earn .5 credit upon completion of this customized learning opportunity.

Major Topics and Concepts

Module 1:

  • Confirming the Micro-Internship
  • Micro-Internship Permission
  • Establishing a Line of Communication
  • Scheduling Mentor Interaction and Final Deliverable
  • Micro-Internship Preparation
  • Professional Expectations: Communicating Face to Face
  • Professional Expectations: Professional Culture
  • Exploring Career Pathways

Module 2:

  • Developing a Professional Network
  • Completing the Micro-Internship
  • Post Micro-Internship

Module 3:

  • Technical Skills Deliverable

Module 4:

  • Emerging Trends Deliverable

 

Credits .5

Competencies

  • Micro-Internship Training and Responsibilities
    Students will demonstrate an understanding of a career addressed in the micro-internship by explaining the required responsibilities and training for the career.
  • Micro-Internship Completion
    Students will demonstrate an understanding of a career addressed in the micro-internship by completing the micro internship and the required deliverable(s).
  • Information Technology Technical Skills
    Students will demonstrate an understanding of the technical skills associated with Information Technology Careers by explaining technical skills associated with Information Technology such as scripting, application or programming, and explaining the relationship between the technical skills and support of a network information system.
  • Information Technology Emerging Trends
    Students will demonstrate an understanding of emerging trends associated with Information Technology Careers by connecting the emerging technology to the needs of the user, and communicating the strategic value of the new technology to the existing computer based information system(s).

Pre-Requisites

None
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