In this course, students will use internship or service-learning experiences every week to discuss and glean insights with other students. This will be facilitated through a bi-weekly reflection journal, narrating the significance students found at the worksite. At the end of the course, participants will share the various skills that they have cultivated through the internship or service-learning experience in a presentation that is shared in class. It is the student’s responsibility to find an internship, though faculty and Regis’s Academic Internship Office are available to help students cultivate their options.
“The time spent earning my Master's in Religious Studies has allowed me to greatly improve my academic skills in both writing and research. Through earning my degree, I have gained a greater appreciation of how religion can positively impact society, especially in regards to peoples' mental, physical, and spiritual well-being. My internship experience was also beneficial in that, it provided me with practical experience for today's job market.” -David McMillan (Graduated 2021, MA Religious Studies)
“When learning something new, hands-on, or experiential learning, has always been my preferred approach. For me, the experience itself seems to help commit the new material to memory faster than if someone were to verbalize the information and/or instructions. The same can be said for this course's experiential learning, in that the active role at an internship helped me to associate the theories and information learned through Regis with real-life experience, synthesizing once two-dimensional constructs into meaningful and tangible experiences.”
-Ashley Sterling (Graduated 2022, MS Criminology)