Director's Message

Welcome to HGSE’s internship program! We are excited to have you visit our website and strongly encourage you to explore the possibility of pursuing an internship experience while a student at Harvard. Internships provide an opportunity for you to broaden your experience, enhance your credentials, and expand your range of networking opportunities in the Boston/Cambridge environment and beyond. It is an ideal way for you to link your academic coursework with practice-based experiences.

The Field Experience Course (S-997) is open to all HGSE students. It is a one-semester, four-credit course in which students intern for approximately 8 hours/per week at the location of their choice, attend five mandatory seminars, are supervised by an expert at the site, and have the support of an experienced teaching fellow.

The Field Experience Program is now directly affiliated with the Career Service Office which offers a highly experienced professional staff to support you in locating, securing and developing a professional internship in exactly the type of organization in which you are interested in working. We have an expansive list of already established internship opportunities at museums, hospitals, research facilities, public and private schools, universities, non-profit organizations, business and public sector industries which can be easily accessed through Hired. We also encourage students to propose self-constructed internships.

We invite you to share your ideas, explore the multiple alternatives, and have a conversation with us about the program. Please email FEP@gse.harvard.edu or call 617-495-3427 with any questions.