Requirements & forms
The field experience includes 120+ hours of work of active engagement in community development work, along with the creation of an electronic portfolio that showcases your professional work.
Your placement must be approved before you do any hours.
More information about the requirements and help resources are available in the student resource folder (folder "widget" to the right).
This includes:
overview of the field experience process
instructions for submitting your prospectus to propose a field experience placement
some tips about internships in general
logs for tracking your hours after the placement has been approved
Hours logging is done in Excel; download the file to a computer hard drive and edit/save it there. If you don't have the Microsoft Office suite, you can download it at https://www.pdx.edu/oit/microsoft-office. Apache OpenOffice is an open-source alternative available at https://www.openoffice.org. The Google Suite also now allows for editing MS Office file formats within Google Drive.