BIS 401 Internship experience
I completed an internship for Chairman Wendsler Nosie of the San Carlos Apache Tribe and I am learning so much about my culture and people while fulfilling this internship. This was a relatively new intern role therefore this role showed the potential and opportunity to develop additional roles thought period the internship. Some of my responsibilities include but are not limited to provide administration support to the Chairman and other tribal council members. Writing memos, business letters and assist in press releases, research for the Chairman, assist in updating and maintaining media lists. I have been able to help provide support at special events in San Carlos and outside of tribal lands and help with any additional promotions and special events. I have also helped in assisting in providing a link between the Chairman’s office and other departments within the company, and between the company and external parties, as a representative of Chairman in dealings with both internal and external communications. This internship has allowed me to see the positive and negative aspects of tribal government.
My Personal Plan of Action
I plan on graduating this summer and continuing on with my education and pursue a master’s degree. In the future I hope to have a job that I enjoy and that will allow me to be able to work directly with other people. I am not the type of person that can sit in a cubicle and simply do desk work all day. I like to be involved with people, and I enjoy seeing other’s faces when you help them out or make their day. I believe that I am people person. I hope I find a career that allows me to take on a new challenges and tasks and still help others in the process. I am true believers in there are no accidents and, I believe that whatever is meant to happen will happen, and that opportunities are everywhere. My goal in life is to try and live every day as it were my last and touch the people’s lives around me in a positive way. I look forward to every career opportunity that presents itself to me, and the personal growth that I will gain through these experiences. I strive to be positive, patient, honest, and trustworthy and hope that my practices will influence others around me. I hope I will help organizations to make a positive difference.
Here is a list all the courses I have completed in my two concentration areas
Communications
COM 100 Intro to communications This course got me started my interests for communication and I learned how to give a speech in front of a class. I like how this class taught me the basics of communication how to apply those basic concept to achieve my long term and short term communication goals.
COM 230 Small Group Communications
My small group communication taught me how to communicate in a small group and how to form a common goal for the group so the group will complete its task. I feel that I am a better team player because of this course.
COM 222 Argumentation
In this course I learned about argumentation and examined the basic principles of logic, evidence, reasoning, argumentative de/construction and presentation of arguments supporting and opposing a proposition. This course helped me to understand the role of argumentation in daily life interactions. This class has made me think critically about arguments. I now know that a successful arguing goes far beyond just saying your viewpoint, much thought must be put into an argument. Through all the readings we were forced to pick apart pro and con sides of the argument, show the arguments strengths and weaknesses.
COM 250 Organizational Communications
This course talks about communication in the business and professional world. Organizational communication taught me how to get along with people in a work environment and how to approach different situations in the work place.
COM 263 Elements Intercultural communication
This course gave me an introduction to basic concepts and principals and skills for improving communication between persons from different minority, racial, ethnic and cultural backgrounds. I learned about various dimensions of intercultural communication.
COM 310 Relational communication
This course focus on describing and understanding communicating the process involved with a close relationship. I learned about the developing and escalating process of close relationship, how to maintain a fair and satisfying relationship and how to manage a relationship.
COM 312 Conflict and negotiation
This course focuses on nature of conflict and how it is defined as well as how to think about conflict theoretically. I learned how to identify conflict and how to manage myself and others in conflict. I also learned how to resolve and prevent future conflict from arising.
COM 316 Gender and Communication
This course introduced me to gender-related communication. I was able to learn how to examine verbal, nonverbal, and paralinguistic differences and similarities within social, psychological, and historic perspectives.
COM 317 Nonverbal Communication
I would have to say this was one of my most valuable communication courses because I learned about a way to take a look at communication void of sounds. This course taught about communication using the following; space, time, movement, facial expression, touch, appearance, smell, environment, objects, voice, and gender/cultural variables.
Sociology
SOC 194 Leadership
This course teaches you how to identify the type of leader you are though text and countless leadership test based on different theories. I learned that leadership is process and not just simply a trait or characteristic.
SOC 270 Racial & ethnic minority
The class taught me about cultural pluralism which is a term used when small groups within a larger society maintain their unique cultural identities. I also learned about the causes and effects of prejudice and discrimination as well the impact they have on minority groups.
SOC 241 Social Problems
This course exposed me to the numerous social problems like Race relations, poverty, unemployment, and other current issues as well as big issues genocides that took place Rwanda and Darfur, human enhancement, religious dishonorable killings, human trafficking, globalization education, environmental issues and economic development. There are so many topics this course covered. The best thing that I liked about this course was the videos because I feel that all the videos were very informative and help me see the world and its social problems in a new way.
SOC 301 Principal Of Sociology
I learned what sociology is about, which is the science of studying human populations. This course also showed me ways to view populations and society, in order to improve the well being of how people live.
SOC 321- Sociology of work
I learned the skills to succeed in the workplace like building your resume and portfolio. This course also went over rules the work place, as well as top skill the employers look for and how to build on them.
SOC 352 Social Change
In this course I learned from the text, online video and weekly discussion board question. This classes taught me the roots and principals of social change. This class examined the significant changes in social structures and cultural patters over time.
SOC 483 History of Social Thought
Through videos and written content I learned about the root of sociology. I now feel I have a better grasp on principle theories of Sociology.
FAS 370 Family and ethnic & Cultural diversity
This course taught me how to relate to different people in their cultural beliefs and also how religion, ethnic background and cultural had different and similar histories. The class also showed me how to identify predictors for current and future actions of that population.