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Course readings

 

All of the readings for INTER-LS 260 are available online.  In order to ensure that we follow "Fair Use" copyright guidelines, these readings are accessible only to UW-Madison faculty, staff, and students.

 

Please select your specific internship course semester in order to find the course readings

 

 

Although we can't link to them outside of the course, bibliographic information for each of our past readings is listed alphabetically here.

 

  • Marc Bousquet, “Students are already workers,” in How the university works: Higher education and the low-wage nation (2008); 30 pages. 
  • Ronad Brownstein, "Children of the Great Recession," National Journal (08 May 2010); 10 pages.   

 

  • Alexandra Cheney, "Firms assess young interns' potential," Wall Street Journal (13 Sep 2010).
  • William Cronon, “‘Only connect...’: The goals of a liberal education” American Scholar (1998); 6 pages.   

 

  • Tamara Draut, "The growing college gap," in James Lardner and David A. Smith, eds., Inequality matters: The growing economic divide in America and its poisonous consequences (2005), 89-101; 10 pages. 

 

  • Mark Edmundson, "On the uses of a liberal education: As lite entertainment for bored college students," Harpers(September 1997); 11 pages.   
  • Barbara Ehrenreich, Nickel and dimed: On (not) getting by in America (2002), selection.  
  • Robert Emerson, Rachel Fretz and Linda Shaw, "Writing up fieldnotes I: From field to desk," Writing Ethnographic Fieldnotes(1995), 39-65. 
  • Robert Emerson, Rachel Fretz and Linda Shaw, "Processing fieldnotes: Coding and memoing," Writing Ethnographic Fieldnotes (1995), 142-168. 
  • Nathan Ensmenger, "Resistance is futile?  Reluctant and selective users of the Internet," in William Aspray and Paul Ceruzzi, eds., The Internet and American Business (2008).  

 

  • Jamie Fedorko, "The first day," in The Intern Files (2006). 
  • Jamie Fedorko, "How to be the perfect intern," in The Intern Files (2006).  
  • Richard Florida, "Preface," The rise of the creative class: And how it's transforming work, leisure, community, and everyday life (2002). 
  • Jason Fried and David H. Hansson, ReWork (2010), excerpts. 

 

  • Robin Marantz Henig, "What is it about 20-somethings?" New York Times (18 August 2010).  

 

  • Robin Leidner, "Serving hamburgers and selling insurance: Gender, work, and identity in interactive service jobs,"Gender & Society (1991), 154-177.   
  • Michael Levin, "Ethics 101 for interns," Bloomberg Businessweek (11 December 2009).
  • Frank Levy and Richard J. Murnane, “How computers change work and pay,” in The new division of labor: How computers are creating the next job market (2004), 31-54; 20 pages.  
  • Alec Luhn, "Some foreign workers find frustration in Wisconsin Dells," Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism (September 2010). 

 

  • Farhad Manjoo, "Social networking your way to a new job," New York Times (25 August 2010). 
  • Jennifer Merritt, "Employers favor state schools for hires," Wall Street Journal (13 Sep 2010).  
  • Ryan Morris and Cameron Joseph, "The big picture," National Journal (25 July 2010). 

 

  • Don Peck, "Early career moves are the most important," National Journal (08 May 2010).  
  • Ross Perlin, "Unpaid interns, complicit colleges," New York Times (02 April 2011). 
  • Ross Perlin, "Down and out in the Magic Kingdom," Guernica (May 2011).
  • Ross Perlin, "Interns of the world, unite!" In These Times (11 May 2011). 
  • Pew Internet and American Life Project, “Networked workers: Most workers use the internet or email at their jobs, but they say these technologies are a mixed blessing for them” (2008). 
  • Hector Postigo, "From Pong to Planet Quake: Post-industrial transitions from leisure to work," Information, Communication, and Society (2003). 

 

  • Catherine Rampell, "More college graduates taking public service jobs," New York Times (01 March 2011). 
  • Jackie Krasas Rogers, "A temporary job: Is it the 'temporary' or the 'job'?" in Temps: The many faces of the changing workplace (2000), 151-174. 
  • Jackie Krasas Rogers, "Gender, occupations, and temporary employment"  in Temps: The many faces of the changing workplace (2000). 

 

  • Hannah Seligson, "No jobs?  Young graduates make their own," New York Times (11 December 2010).

 


Data sources

 

Here's some interesting data on UW-Madison student career preferences from the Universum Student Survey 2011

 

 


Other online resources

 


Previous student books that we've assigned

This list gives you an idea of the wide range of students who have taken the internship course in the past ...

 

Community organizing

 

Culture and art

 

Disaster management

 

Entertainment (film and television)

 

Environmental sustainability 

  • Temra Costa, Farmer Jane: Women Changing The Way We Eat (2010).
  • Andres R. Edwards Thriving Beyond Sustainability: Pathways to a Resilient Society (New Society, 2010); 224 pp. $12  
  • Dolores Hayden, Building suburbia: Green fields and urban growth, 1820-2000 (Vintage, 2009); 336 pages; $12 paper. 

 

Fashion and Style

 

Food service and hospitality

 

Financial services

 

Global society

 

Health care

 

Higher education

 

Information Technology

 

Internships

 

Language and culture

  • Richard Tillinghast Finding Ireland: A Poet's Explorations of Irish Literature and Culture (Notre Dame University Press, 2008); 272 pp. $25

 

Law

 

Magazines and publishing

 

Marketing and PR

 

Music and radio 

 

New media

 

News and reporting

 

Non-profit sector and Philanthropy

 

Politics and government

 

Science and technology

 

Sports and recreation

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