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Internship
AR220

YEAR:

2023-2024

CREDIT HOURS:

2.00

PREREQUISITES:

None

COREQUISITES:

None

COURSE NOTES:

Repeatable to a maximum of 6 credit hours.

CATALOG COURSE DESCRIPTION:

Actual on-the-job work experience through a partnership with industry and Hutchinson Community College Visual Communications program.

HutchCC INSTITUTION-WIDE OUTCOMES:

  1. Demonstrate the ability to think critically and make reasonable judgments by acquiring, analyzing, combining, and evaluating information.
  2. Demonstrate the skills necessary to access and manipulate information through various technological and traditional methods.
  3. Demonstrate effective communication through reading, writing, listening, and speaking.
  4. Demonstrate effective interpersonal and collaborative skills.
  5. Demonstrate effective quantitative-reasoning and computational skills.

COURSE OUTCOMES AND COMPETENCIES:

  1. Develop an insight into future job responsibilities.
  2. Develop employment potential.
  3. Demonstrate work behavior attitudes.
  4. Take advantage of opportunities for advancement once employed.
  5. Improve workplace skills required for full-time employment.
  6. Develop problem-solving skills related to actual designs.
  7. Engage in teamwork strategies to solve problems.
  8. Attain higher levels of productivity.
  9. Meet the demand for new skills required by rapid technological changes.
  10. Manage time.
    1. Set priorities or the order in which several tasks will be accomplished.
    2. Set the goals or standard for accomplishing a specific task.
    3. Select activities to accomplish a specific task.
    4. Determine the order of the activities or step-by-step process by which a specific task can be accomplished.
    5. Locate information about duties, methods, and procedures to perform the activities needed to accomplish a specific task.
    6. Estimate the time required to perform activities needed to accomplish a specific task.
    7. Locate information and select the computer software, peripherals, or other resources to perform the activities needed to accomplish a specific task.
    8. Revise or update periodically the plans and activities needed to accomplish a specific task
  11. Manage materials.
    1. Identify and explain the common supplies for a given graphic design, photography, or journalism project.
    2. Perform routine tasks related to computer and peripheral operation and/or maintenance.
  12. Manage facilities.
    1. Demonstrate knowledge of workplace products and/or services.
    2. Exhibit the safe use of equipment.
    3. Organize workspace.
    4. Establish workflow.
    5. Adjust to changes in workflow.
  13. Work as a team.
    1. Exhibit skills needed to maintain effective work relations with colleagues.
    2. Exhibit the appropriate teamwork skills needed to create a product that meets customer specifications.
  14. Demonstrate computer literacy.
    1. Identify, select, and use computers, printers, scanners, and digital cameras.
    2. Identify, select, and use word processing software, page design software, and graphic design software.
    3. Scan images at the proper resolution and in the proper format.
    4. Place images in page design in proper format and size.
    5. Save documents in the proper output format.
    6. Print documents using the proper output device.
    7. Perform backup procedures of all work.
  15. Make decisions and solve problems.
    1. Recognize or identify the existence of a problem given a specific set of facts.
    2. Ask appropriate questions to identify or verify the existence of a problem.
    3. Determine methods for eliminating the causes of a problem.
    4. Gather important information needed to solve a problem.
    5. Generate alternative solutions to a problem.
    6. Select a solution that represents the best course of action to pursue.
  16. Demonstrate listening skills.
    1. Demonstrate an appropriate listening style for a given situation.
    2. Ask questions to clarify oral instructions.
  17. Demonstrate speaking skills.
    1. Handle criticism, disagreement, or disappointment during a conversation.
    2. Initiate and maintain task-focused or friendly conversations with another individual.
    3. Join in task-focused group conversations.
  18. Demonstrate skills in giving and taking feedback.
    1. Seek feedback nondefensively.
    2. Analyze feedback.
    3. Give feedback.
  19. Demonstrate work ethic.
    1. Exhibit desirable worker characteristics in terms of cooperation, compromise, competition, assertiveness, integrity, honesty, friendliness, and a positive attitude.
    2. Comply with standard workplace policies related to personal discipline (personal leave and absence), substance abuse, employee theft, and causes for termination.
    3. Comply with employee rules, regulations, and policies, including punctuality and dependability, accepting responsibility for a position, and demonstrating accuracy.
    4. Comply with safety and health rules in the work environment including exhibiting safe use of computers and other equipment, maintaining clean and orderly work area(s), practicing personal hygiene and cleanliness, and wearing attire suitable to workplace.
    5. Comply with company policies regarding information dissemination and related security matters.
  20. Demonstrate self-management skills.
    1. Demonstrate ways to communicate positive feelings.
    2. Demonstrate appropriate ways to communicate negative feelings.
    3. Exhibit proper attitudes toward authority figures.
    4. Apply the correct process for handling a decision-making, problem-solving, and/or management-related task.

COURSE ASSESSMENT AND EVALUATION:

1. On-site visits 2. Supervisor evaluations 3. Monthly reports

ACCOMMODATIONS STATEMENT:

Any student who has a documented disability and wishes to access academic accommodations (per the 1973 Rehabilitation Act and Americans with Disability Act) must contact the HCC Coordinator of Disability Services, at 620-665-3554, or the Student Success Center, Parker Student Union. The student must have appropriate documentation on file before accommodations can be provided.

ACADEMIC HONESTY:

Education requires integrity and respect for HutchCC's institutional values. HutchCC students are required to maintain honesty through a "responsible acquisition, discovery, and application of knowledge" in all academic pursuits. Preserving and upholding academic honesty is the responsibility of Hut chCC students, faculty, administrators and staff.

I. Student Responsibilities

All HutchCC students are required to:

  • Submit all work in all courses without cheating, fabrication, plagiarism, dissimulation, forgery, sabotage, or academic dishonesty as defined below.
  • Provide all academic records such as transcripts and test scores that are free of forgery.
  • Refrain from participating in the academic dishonesty of any person.
  • Use only authorized notes and student aids.
  • Use technology appropriately, including refraining from submitting AI (Artificial Intelligence)-generated work without express written consent from your instructor.
  • Protect the security of passwords/login/privacy/electronic files, and maintain sole individual access for any online course information.

II. Definition of Academic Dishonesty

  • Academic dishonesty is any intentional act, or attempted act, of cheating, fabrication, plagiarism, dissimulation, forgery, or sabotage in academic work.
  • Cheating includes using unauthorized materials of any kind, whether hard copies, online, or electronic, such as unapproved study aids in any academic work, copying another student's work, using an unauthorized "cheat sheet" or device, or purchasing or acquiring an essay online or from another student.
  • Fabrica tion is the invention or falsification of any information or citation in any academic work, such as making up a source, providing an incorrect citation, or misquoting a source.
  • Plagiarism is the representation of words, ideas and other works that are not the student's own as being original to the student. A no n-inclusive list of examples includes work completed by someone else, work generated by an external entity (such as AI), omitting a citation for work used from another source, or borrowing the sequence of ideas, arrangement of material, and/or pattern of thought of work not produced by the student, even though it may be expressed in the student's own words.
  • Dissimulation is the obscuring of a student's own actions with the intention of deceiving others in any academic work, such as fabricating excuses for absences or missed assignments, or feigning attendance.
  • Forgery of academic documents is the unauthorized altering, falsification, misrepresentation, or construction of any academic document, such as changing transcripts, changing grades on papers or on exams which have been returned, forging signatures, manipulating a digital file of academic work, or plagiarizing a translation.
  • Sabotage is any obstruction or attempted obstruction of the academic work of another student, such as impersonating another student, stealing or ruining another student's academic work.
  • Aiding and abetting academic dishonesty is considered as knowingly facilitating any act defined above.
  • Academic honesty violations can also include the omission or falsification of any information on an application for any HutchCC academic program.

III. Sanctions for Academic Dishonesty

Students who violate the Academic Honesty Policy may be subject to academic or administrative consequences.

Instructor Sanctions for Violation:

Students suspected of violating the Academic Honesty Policy may be charged in writing by their instructor and any of the following may apply:

  • Assign Avoiding Plagiarism Bridge Module
  • Receiving written warning that could lead to more severe sanction if a second offense occurs
  • Revising the assignment/work in question for partial credit
  • Voiding work in question without opportunity for make-up
  • Reducing the grade for work in question
  • Lowering the final course grade
  • Failing the work in question

Institutional Sanctions for Violation:

Students charged with academic dishonesty, particularly in instances of repeated violations, may further be subjected to an investigation and any of the following may apply:

  • Instructor recommendation to the Vice President of Academic Affairs (VPAA) to dismiss the student from the course in which the dishonesty occurs
  • Instructor recommendation to the VPAA to dismiss student from the course in which the dishonesty occurs with a grade of 'F." Student will not be allowed to take a 'W' for the course
  • Instructor recommendation to the VPAA that the student be suspended and/or dismissed from the program
  • Student barred from course/program for a set period of time or permanently
  • May be recommended by the instructor (after documented repeated offenses) to the VP AA that the student be placed on probation, suspended and/or dismissed from the institution.

IV. Procedure

  • Instructor will communicate in writing via the student's HutchCC email account and/or LearningZone email account to the student suspected of violating the Academic Honesty Policy.  That communication may include sanction(s). Department Chair will notify the student's academic advisor upon receipt of the Academic Honesty Violation Form.
  • For each violation, the instructor will submit a completed Academic Honesty Violation Form to the Department Chair. Department Chair will notify the student's academic advisor upon receipt of the Academic Honesty Violation form.
  • Should the instructor choose to pursue institutional sanctions, the instruct or shall notify the student in writing via the student's HutchCC email account.  Instructor shall also submit a completed Academic Honesty Violation Form and all prior completed forms regarding said student to the Department Chair and the office of the VPAA with recommendation to proceed with specific Institutional Sanctions. Department Chair will notify the student's academic advisor upon receipt of the Academic Honesty Violation Form.
  • The decision of the VPAA on Institutional Sanction is final. The VPAA will notify the student's academic advisor of any institutional sanctions.

V. Due Process Rights

Students charged with violations of academic honesty have the right of appeal and are assured of due process through the Academic Honesty Appeal process.

Academic Honesty Appeal Process

I. Due Process Rights: Students charged with violations of academic honesty have the right of appeal and are assured of due process through the Academic Honesty Appeal process.

  • If an instructor has recommended course or program dismissal, the student may continue in coursework (provi ding there are no threatening or security behavioral issues) until appeal processes are concluded. However, if an issue has been documented at a partnership location (e.g., clinical sites, secondary institutions, correctional or military facilities), then the student is no longer eligible to continue participation in internships, apprenticeships, and/or clinical-based practice. For clinical sites, this sanction is immediate.

II. Process

If the student disagrees with the charge of a violation of academic honesty, the student has the right to due process as described in the Academic Honesty Appeal process below:

  • If the matter is not resolved upon communicating with the instructor about the violation, the student shall, within five business days of the issuance of the written notice of violation, submit a completed Academic Honesty Appeal Form and supporting documentation to the appropriate department chairperson to initiate an Academic Honesty Appeal.
  • Within two business days of receiving the student's completed Academic Honesty Appeal Form, the Department Chair and VPAA will review and the VPAA will render a decision.
  • Within two business days, a response will be sent to the student's HutchCC email address. The VPAA's decision is final.

INCOMPLETE GRADE:

Instructors may give a student a grade of Incomplete (I) under the following conditions:

  1. The student must initiate the request prior to the time final course grades are submitted to Records.
  2. The request must be made because of an emergency, illness or otherwise unavoidable life-event.
  3. The instructor must agree to the request before a grade of Incomplete can be submitted.
  4. A written contract between the instructor and student, signed by both, will document the work required and date needed to complete course work.
  5. If a student does not complete the course requirements within the time frame established by the instructor, a grade of "F" will be recorded on the student's transcript at the end of the next semester.

HLC ACCREDITATION:

Hutchinson Community College is accredited by the Higher Learning Commission (HLC). The Higher Learning Commission is one of six regional institutional accreditors recognized by the US Department of Education and the Council on Higher Education Accreditation (CHEA).

Last Revised: 06/06/2019