OPPORTUNITIES

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STUDENT SPOTLIGHT

Meet our academic all-star!

CAS COURSES

Take a look at a few courses offered in the fall.

WELCOME

Hello, Students!

I hope you all are getting into the swing of things this fall semester! Make sure to continue checking in with the Student Success Center for internships, campus resources and events.

- Lilly Amechi, SSC Student Intern

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Historic CAS Announcement

The future of the College of Arts and Sciences is changing! Be a part of this amazing transformation by reserving your spot here for this Thursday's announcement.

Student Spotlight: Stacey Johnson

Q: What is your favorite course you have taken with the College of Arts and Sciences?

PSY 2603, Lifespan Development with Dr. Molly O’Mealey has been my favorite course during my college experience, but this semester I'm looking forward to SOC 3525, Criminology with John Carl. Both of these classes have given me the opportunity to reflect on human development, whether that is how trauma impacts who we become or how you define crime and law. Both of these professors are absolutely wonderful individuals, with many different available opportunities to succeed, and have definitely provided a great basis for those of us looking to dive into the world of psychology and criminology!

Q: What do you love about the College of Arts and Sciences?

The College of Arts and Sciences not only helped me discover my passions in life, but also welcomed me with open arms when I decided to change majors my freshman year. There was a point in time during college I was not only unsure of myself and of the direction my potential career was headed. Thanks to CAS, I feel confident in not only myself, but the difference I will continue to make in my community. The number of opportunities available to succeed within CAS is unlimited, and I would encourage any student within the college to keep reaching out to peers and faculty for help, and keep their sights set high for the impact they will make in their communities as well as on campus!

Q: How did you spend your summer?

This summer I focused most of my attention on prepping for this school year, whether that was planning with my fellow exec members Kylie Hutchison and Aarya Ghonasgi for Women’s Health Advocacy or becoming a certified research assistant. On the side, I spent a lot of time reading, relaxing and remembering to take care of myself! COVID took a great deal of time and energy from all of us last year, so I believe the best thing for everyone to do right now is keep in touch with your own needs, boundaries, and mental health.

Q: What has been your most rewarding leadership experience?

By far, my job to serve as a health advocate on campus through Women’s Health Advocacy has brought me an insurmountable amount of joy. Last year, I served as an education officer and just by doing that there were many opportunities to spread awareness on campus, whether that was our collaborations with the Gender and Equality Center or providing menstrual products for students on campus in need!

Students, meet Stacey Johnson! She is a senior from McKinney, Texas, majoring in psychology and criminology with a minor in political science. In addition to her academic endeavors, Johnson serves as the vice president of education for Women’s Health Advocacy, one of the public relations chairs for Psychology Club, and a research assistant in Scott Gronlund’s Memory Lab.

Opportunities

For more internship listings, career development and undergraduate research opportunities, follow the Student Success Center on Twitter.

Earn Credit For Your Internship

For information about how to receive academic credit for your internship, please see your advisor or email us at ssc@ou.edu

The Smithsonian Magazine is hiring an assistant web editor. They are looking for a journalist with a passion for history, archaeology, arts and culture, and travel. For more information and the application, click here.

SSM Health in OKC seeks interns to provide research, analysis, and documentation support for a variety of projects. For more information, click here.

Amazon is seeking a workplace health and safety intern for summer 2022. OKC. Preferred majors include Public Health and Environmental Science. Click here for more information.

OU Foundation is looking to hire student fundraisers! Students earn $10 per hour as well as bonuses while working in a fun, growth-centered environment, connecting with alumni and developing their professional skills. For more information, email crimsoncallcenter@ou.edu.

Respond Flow seeks a "self-sufficient, goal-driven, and ambitious" paid marketing communications intern. Up to 20 hours per week. Located in Tulsa. More information can be found here.

Gallagher, one of the world's largest insurance brokerage, risk management and human capital consulting firms, seeks paid summer sales interns for 2022. Candidates are eligible from any major. De tails on Handshake.

Nextep, a firm that provides HR services to small and mid-sized companies, seeks paid spring human relations interns. Headquartered in beautiful Norman, Oklahoma. Details on Handshake.

American Fidelity seeks a data science intern with experience in at least one statistical programming tool, such as R, SAS, or Python. For more information and the application, click here.

Hilti North America, located in Tulsa, seeks a paid summer human resources intern. Preferred majors include HR and psychology, but all majors are accepted. 'You can find the application here.

Partner workshops and job postings distributed by the Student Success Center do not imply the college’s endorsement of the mission of any individual organization external to the university. Students are encouraged to learn for themselves about individual opportunities and organizations and to contact ssc@ou.edu with questions.

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Meet the faculty director for CAS's Student Success Center: Victoria Sturtevant

Victoria Sturtevant, Ph.D., is the faculty director for the College of Arts and Sciences' Student Success Center. Her work with faculty and staff directly impacts students' lives by ensuring their success in multiple avenues through the college.

What is the role of the Student Success Center in the College of Arts and Sciences?

Arts and Sciences students are learning all kinds of deep skills in their majors: critical thinking, quantitative skills, close reading, data analysis, research methods, cultural competency, speech and writing and so much more. We call these "transferrable skills," and they are incredibly useful, but students are often unsure of exactly how to translate them to new contexts like careers, graduate school, or activism. Our role in the SSC is to help students bridge what they love about their CAS majors with these larger personal and professional goals. It's really rewarding work and a lot of fun.

As administrator of the SSC, what are your most imperative goals concerning CAS students' success?

One of the most powerful tools to help students make the most of their OU experience is experiential learning, things like internships, study abroad, undergraduate research or service-learning. These high-impact courses place academic learning in the larger contexts of real-world communities, industries and research fields, and often help launch students on their career paths. In the SSC, we are working to expand student access to these kinds of high-impact courses, with the goal that every student should participate in one or more during their undergraduate years. This means working with departments to offer more experiential learning options and also thinking about how to remove barriers like cost, transportation, time-to-degree or scarcity of resources in order to ensure that every student graduates with the kind of confidence and efficacy that experiential learning promotes.

What do students gain when interacting with the SSC?

With all the COVID disruptions in the world keeping people apart and changing the way we work, it's especially important to lift up our students, however we can. I want CAS students to understand that their skills are EXACTLY what will help pull us through these crises. Communities need reliable information, clear communication, creative problem-solving, a deeper understanding of human diversity, the ability to listen to each other and the ability to continue learning and growing as the world changes around us. In other words, communities need you, future CAS graduates. Our goal is to help students find their own sense of purpose, connect what they love about their major to what they want to do with their lives, and go out to change the world in their own amazing ways.