Apply by January 20th
Ottawa Internship Program
May 5 - June 6, 2014
French placements available!
The Ottawa Internship Program is designed to provide first-hand experience with the House of Commons in Ottawa, Canada. Students will work in a Member of Parliament's office for a period of five weeks. Among the programs goals are leadership training, learning the similarities and differences of policy problems and approaches and solutions to them, exposure to a different political party system, acquisition of new political language, the elimination or reduction of political ethnocentrism, viewing the image of the United States' policies and politics from outside the United States, and providing the students with more career possibilities within the world of politics. The program combines field experience with enrichment seminars dealing with a wide variety of issues tangential to Canadian politics.
Applications for the Ottawa Internship Program must be submitted by January 20, 2014. This will be the 31st year of the program, which places students in the offices of Canadian MPs and senators. French language and bilingual (French/English) placements are available.
More information may be found at www.umd.umich.edu/
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