The College of Agriculture and Life Sciences (CALS) offers students opportunities for experiential and engaged learning through internships with organizations in communities and organizations locally, domestically, and internationally. While personal and professional growth happens during the internship itself, engaged learning theory suggests that intentional, scaffolded opportunities for reflection on those experiences is what enables transformative student learning and invites students to make connections between their individual actions and larger systems of global change. To that end, in this course students complete weekly reflection and skill building activities to intentionally discern what they have learned and continue building on that learning going forward. Students will summarize key course takeaways in a professional poster to be presented during the annual CALS Engaged and Experiential Learning Symposium.

Outcome 1
Articulate the knowledge, skills, and attitudes that they’ve developed or refined as a result of their internship.

Outcome 2
Formulate a plan for building on their experience to further their personal and professional development during the remainder of their time at Cornell, as well as in other academic or non-academic contexts.

Outcome 3
Critically review and share constructive feedback on a peer’s work, as well as evaluate the value of feedback received from peers relative to guiding their own revisions.

Outcome 4
Create an informative and visually appealing poster which effectively communicates engaged learning or research outcomes and related implications.

Outcome 5
Design and deliver an elevator speech in which they effectively and succinctly convey key points they want their target audience to understand about their poster topic.