Organization: Sociologist For Women in Society (www.socwomen.org)
Due Date: November 1st, 2008
Undergraduate Activism Award
The Undergraduate Social Action Award is designed to carry on the SWS tradition of acknowledging, affirming and inviting students to participate in SWS. The three winners of this award will be invited to attend the SWS Winter Meeting and participate in a panel session discussing how their internship experience advanced the purpose of SWS by working to improve women's lives and to create feminist social change.
Who is Eligible?
Students who have participated in an undergraduate internship or faculty-supervised social action work (e.g., internships,
community-based research, activism, community work) within the past year.
Requirements:
Students must submit a five-page paper that:
1) Describes the history, structure, funding sources, and purpose of
the organization or community with which they worked.
2) Reports the initial goals of the internship or action work
3) Assesses the accomplishments of the internship or action work,
particularly in light of how initial goals were met or were altered
4) Analyzes and reflects upon what was learned from the internship or
action work
5) Discusses the connections between the internship or action work
and rest of the student's education
6) Reports if and how the internship contributed to women's lives
and/or feminist social change.
Award:
Winners will be invited to the SWS Winter Meetings in Savannah where they will offer a panel discussion. They will each be given $700 to help cover travel and hotel costs.
Submit proposals to:
Kate Linnenberg, linnenbe@beloit.edu
Electronic Submissions encouraged.
