The world is becoming an increasingly
diverse place and one really must be
skilled in understanding the culture
within which grows up and was socialized
and the cultures and subcultures that
one is going to encounter in the
community work one does. For most students in the program, would probably say their
internship that's the single most
important thing they do in the program because that's
where ideally they get great supervision,
they have a mentor, they get to do this
sort of work they are going to be doing in their career and it's an opportunity to develop those
skills that are going to be crucial to
being successful and for those students
who want to go on to doctoral work an
internship is also really important
because if you're going to go to a
doctoral program in an applied area, like
community psychology or clinical psychology, it's important to have somebody employed
by the internship site be able to say "I've seen this student actually do the sorts of
things that are important for work in
this field and I can vouch for their
credibility and their skill level." It's
hard to do that simply on the basis of
classroom courses that students take. UNH masters program of Community Psychology
is one of the oldest, freestanding
masters programs in community
psychology in the country.
