Gaining experience in the field
Ripon College has a long tradition of offering an outstanding
academic curriculum. In addition to the liberal arts education,
we strongly encourage our students to spend a semester off campus,
either on an international or domestic program.
While each of Ripon’s programs has unique characteristics,
all offer the opportunity to gain valuable experience – interning
in a field of interest, gaining exposure to a foreign culture or
seeing some of the world’s most famous sites.
Pre-law students particularly might be interested in two domestic
programs. Many students have gone on the Washington Semester
to study the judicial process, American government, U.S. foreign
policy or journalism. The program involves a seminar where they
often are brought face-to-face with some of the leading American
and foreign political figures of the day. It also involves an
internship in a politician’s office or in the national
office of an interest organization.
Other students have gone to Chicago on the Urban Studies program,
which again involves both organized study and an internship and
helps students of politics and government become intimately aware
of the problems of modern American cities.
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