SUMMER INTERNSHIPS IN THE CITY
WHAT An internship for Duke credit (English 181C), something most employers require. The Summer Internship in the City seminar (summer version of English 181B; ALP, R. W). So: two Duke courses taught by Duke professors, plus a terrific place to live in New York.
WHEN The Summer in the City seminar meets Mondays (with two-hour Saturday events) during Duke’s SSI, from late May – June. The internship course is offered during Summer full. The internship component is to be completed over the 11 week summer session.
WHERE In 2008, Duke students began living in NYU apartment-style dorms, with easy access to the Village, one of the world’s most delightful neighborhoods. Classrooms will be in NYU's Kimmel Center.
WHO Open to all Duke students, in any year, and from any major. Not from Duke? Contact us at dukeinnewyork@duke.edu to see whether you can enroll in 2010.
WHY Internships help job prospects in the future, but many employers require that interns receive academic credit. Duke in New York Arts & Media gives Duke credit: no faking, no anxieties, no sweat. We make our network of alumni and previous internship placements available and help you get started. Plus we give you a safe, fun, fully furnished place to live; it’s affordable housing AND you don’t have to find it yourself!
The program provides tickets to outstanding plays, concerts, and other events. You are introduced to the city in style and quickly feel like an insider.
You’re enrolled for two Duke courses in the Duke in New York Summer Internship Program. How you use them is up to you: to graduate early or (if you’re missing classes) on time? To allow for an intensive job search or an Honors thesis in Senior year? The Summer in the City seminar counts towards the English major and you may get credit towards many majors or certificates; and it has matrix codings you might need: ALP, R, and W.
You have the full resources of DiNY’s Fall Arts and Media Program and Duke Study Abroad (GEO-U) behind you.
HOW MUCH Students pay for just two Duke summer session courses (in 2009: $2472 per course for a total of $4944), plus a non-refundable $1000 Program fee that will help to provide monthly subway passes, theater tickets, the best museum pass ever, concerts, dance performances, and some meals. Rooms (shared as a double) in 2009 cost $3850 per student from approximately May 25 – August 9. ($250 a week for dorm fee and $100 per week for meal plan for a total of 11 weeks.) Roughly $8700 for the entire summer.
Students on financial aid or wishing to apply for financial aid are eligible for eight regular (Fall/Spring) terms and two Summer terms. In addition, they may apply to waive the requirement for summer earnings for one year. Consult your financial aid counselor or www.finaid.duke.edu to confirm details.
Students who secure internships by March may also apply to the Career Center for funding. Visit their website at http://career.studentaffairs.duke.edu/
SUMMER COURSES
Eng 181C. Internship in New York
Immersion in the professional world through a job with an arts organization, an artist, a not-for-profit, a media outlet such as television or film, or a business that interacts with the arts and media, such as advertising, entertainment law, CD or DVD production, fashion, and events planning. During the Summer, students taking the full Program must be free from 11-3 one day to take the Summer Internships in the City seminar. Students are required to work 25-30/hrs per week; a maximum of 30 hours is strongly recommended. A 10-15 page research paper, involving a list of readings submitted early in the semester, is required for Duke Credit. Offered only for DiNY students. One course.
181B,S The Arts in New York: A Summer in the City. ALP, R, W
The Summer in the City seminar will read literature, see films, and read (as well as see) plays that testify to New York's rise to economic and cultural pre-eminence during the 20th and 21st centuries. It will condense for the Summer session some of the content of the Fall Documenting New York Seminar (immigration narratives; Modernism and Post-modernism: see Fall, above) in order to accomodate an additional focus on the special qualities of the summer months.
New York is always and ever a vibrant center for cultural life and the media-but conditions change during the summer. Large segments of the population, often the wealthiest segments, leave for the Hamptons, upstate New York, or other summer places. Rhythms alter, as do the conditions for funding. The issue of public space and how it should be used-always present-becomes more intense as good weather makes public space more available for cultural life.
As a six-week summer session course, Summer in the City will introduce students quickly to the demographic facts and seek from week one to make students more aware of how to "read" literary, cultural, and demographic facts on the ground. It will be structured around three assignments of graduated length and complexity, the first with optional research, the second and third with research required. Instructor: Staff. One credit.
3 hours, 1 course. This course may be used as a 100-level elective towards an English major or towards an English Cluster requirement. A 1/2 course may be available. Contact dukeinnewyork@duke.edu to ask.
Credit towards other majors or certificates is often available with the approval of the appropriate DUS.
INSTRUCTORS
Marianna Torgovnick is a Professor of English with wide interests in the arts and media, including film and publishing. She is the author of six critical books, including the acclaimed Gone Primitive and the American Book Award winning Crossing Ocean Parkway. Born in New York and a graduate of both NYU and Collumbia, she knows the city well and loves to share her enthusiasm for the city with Duke students.
As Director of the program, Professor Torgovnick teaches one of the Summer terms, usually the seminar in SSI.
Other Professors sometimes teach part of the Summer session.
tor@duke.edu, www.duke.edu/~tor
Recent other faculty include: Jeff Storer (Theatre Studies), and Anthony Kelley (Music).