Abstract
The COVID-19 pandemic in March 2020 resulted in the declaration of a national emergency that closed universities across the nation. With no warning, faculty were required to move classes from face-to-face to completely online instruction. This situation posed many difficulties, but particularly for faculty who were teaching and supervising students completing internships. Interns were removed from their internships abruptly as agencies and departments moved to essential personnel only. Faculty scrambled to create online learning experiences that met academic learning outcomes and the goals of criminal justice students enrolled in these courses. This paper details our experiences with these challenges, particularly as we revised criminal justice internship courses and developed capstone courses to replace face-to-face internship experiences. While the challenges we faced involved criminal justice internships, they were not unique to the major, and the approaches taken and lessons learned are likely applicable to a host of disciplines.
Recommended Citation
Shine, Beau and Brown, Kelly
(2021)
"Transforming Criminal Justice Internships into Capstone Courses: A Response to the Challenges of the COVID-19 Crisis,"
Midwest Social Sciences Journal: Vol. 24:
Iss.
1, Article 9.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.22543/0796.241.1046
Available at:
https://scholar.valpo.edu/mssj/vol24/iss1/9
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