Research: INS 495

Work with a Buffalo State faculty member to study an issue fundamental to your programmatic theme. 

Maybe you help that instructor perform original research. Maybe you help present that research at an academic conference. Or write a play, curate an art opening, develop a business plan, create an app, and assess the effect of lead poisoning on student learning development. Your mentoring instructor grades you.

Requirements

  • Prepare a one-page proposal, titled Project Abstract, detailing the nature of the project, its activities, and anticipated outcomes. Explain specifically how it addresses your program’s learning objectives. The proposal must provide the name of its supervising instructor.
     
  • The INS coordinator must then approve your Project Abstract and will place a copy in the office file.
     
  • Prepare an Application for Undergraduate Project form (requires signatures from you, your supervising instructor, the instructor’s department chair, and the INS coordinator).
     
  • Submit the Application for Undergraduate Project Form to Registration, who will then log the project into your schedule for that particular semester. The deadline date is always the last day of Drop/Add Registration. You will then be billed accordingly.
     
  • At the end of the semester, after you have completed your project, your supervising instructor will submit your grade. Whatever you submit to your supervising instructor in completion of your final project, you must also submit, in copy form, to the INS coordinator for record-keeping purposes in your INS office file.

Internship: INS 499

Identify an internship that relates to your programmatic theme. See how your interests play out in the real world. With internships, the INS program grades you, based on your internship supervisor’s evaluation and on your final research paper (on an issue or problem that your internship site encounters).

Requirements

  • Submit Internship Proposal, stating specific:
  1. Goals
  2. On-site activities
  3. Off-site scholarly activities in relation to your job (such as attendance at a seminar)
  4. Description of what kind of scholarly product will be submitted as part of the internship such as a research paper, literature review, or technical report
  5. And the proposal should state how the internship relates to your programmatic theme
  • It requires 40 hours of work for each credit hour given; so if the internship is for 3 credits, then the student must work 120 hours.
     
  • After approval of the proposal, the Application for Undergraduate Project form must be filled out for Project 499, signed by the Individualized Studies Coordinator, and turned into the Registrar’s Office, Moot Hall 210.
     
  • Prior to completion of your internship, you will need to attend two Career and Professional Education Development Center workshops in Cleveland Hall 306 and present proof of attendance by turning in two Internship Workshop Forms.
     
  • At the completion of the Internship, the submission of the eight-page research paper is required. Your Internship paper is about:
  1. A problem you discovered on the job, you must own the problem
  2. Identify, describe, and research the problem with at least three citations (Look at prior documentation about the problem);
  3. Explore and evaluate ideas about handling the problem.
  • Internship Evaluation form filled out by your supervisor of the internship. Your grade will be based half on your evaluation and half on your research paper.