Can you see yourself living and working in Washington, D.C.?  A representative from The Washington Center for Internships and Academic Seminars will be on campus on Tuesday, Sept. 25, and will hold an all-campus information session from 3:30–4:30 p.m. in Meredith, Room 237.

The Washington Center (TWC)  is a nonpartisan non-profit educational provider in Washington, D.C. that specializes in experiential learning for students across the country.  TWC is very well-regarded for its semester-long study in D.C. program, where students combine academic coursework, a full-time internship, and professional skills development.  They also run short academic seminars every January, offer summer internship programming, and have on-the-ground seminars during party nominating conventions every four years.

As an affiliated institution, Drake has a tuition exchange and credit exchange agreement with TWC.  One of the unique characteristics of TWC is the extent to which they orient their programming to student audiences outside of Political Science majors—from business and finance to media and communications, art and fine arts, law, social justice, sociology, history, museum studies, international affairs, english—their offerings and internships integrate a broad array of policy topics and areas of study. 

—Rachel Paine Caufield, Professor of Political Science