If you’re interested in spending a semester in Washington, D.C., for an internship, check out The Washington Center (TWC) for Internships and Academic Seminars. On Thursday, Sept. 29, Brian Bar, a representative with The Washington Center, will hold a campus-wide information session at 3:30 p.m. in Meredith Hall, Room 238.

The Washington Center offers students an opportunity to live and work in Washington for either a semester-long internship program (students work 30 hours per week, supplemented with policy seminars, professional skills training, and academic coursework) or shorter academic seminars (offered in January and May on specific policy questions or for special events). Internship and coursework options span a large number of fields of study and TWC programs are appropriate for any student. Their course offerings include everything from “From Ideas to Action:  The Anatomy of Entrepreneurship” to “Bioethics” to “Forensic Psychology” to “The Mass Media and National Politics:  Explaining Washington to the Public” to “Philosophy of Law, the Supreme Court and the U.S. Constitutional Tradition” to “The National Mall and America: Symbols and Memory.”

If you are unable to attend the information session, but would like to find out more or meet with the TWC representative, please feel free to contact Professor Rachel Paine Caufield (rachel.caufield@drake.edu).

—Rachel Paine Caufield, Associate Professor of Political Science