Internship Learning Goals
Use these learning objectives to create learning goals specifically designed for your internship.
Cognitive Development Goals
- To apply knowledge and skills.
- To acquire new knowledge in a new setting.
- To integrate or synthesize knowledge from diverse disciplines, courses, and areas of experience.
- To apply higher-order thinking skills (critical thinking, analysis, synthesis, evaluation, problem-solving) to real world situations.
Personal Development Goals
- To develop self-awareness.
- To clarify one’s own values.
- To develop self-reliance and self-confidence.
- To develop and use an ethical perspective.
- To develop career awareness and explore vocation
Skill Development Goals
- To develop skill competencies specific to an occupation or profession.
- To expand oral and written communication skills.
- To increase skills for working with people of diverse backgrounds and to work effectively within diverse environments.
- To acquire additional interpersonal communication and interaction skills.
- To develop skills to work effectively within formal and informal networks and work cultures.
- To further develop observation, recording and interpretation skills.
- To develop skills needed for engaged citizenship.
- To develop skills of leadership.