Welcome to the spring 2021 UCLA Quarter in Washington Program! This brief slide presentation covers important information about the program schedule, enrollment, and your internship search. Please review it and refer back to it as needed.

1. UCLA Quarter in Washington
Remote UCDC Program
Spring 2021 Orientation Meeting
November 20, 2021

2. Agenda
• UCDC Remote Program
• Course enrollment
• Overview of internship search process
• Next Steps

3. UCDC Remote Program
• Remote internships
• Prof. Desveaux’s Research Development
Seminar
• Speakers and professional development
• Alumni mentorship program

4. Process Overview
• We support your mission:
– Structure, resources, advice
– Leads from UCDC
– Alfreda Brock, UCDC alfreda.brock@ucdc.edu
• Listen, READ, respond, communicate
• Be organized
• Always be professional

5. Program Schedule
 ASAP when instructions received: UCDC Symplicity profile
 UCDC Internship Interest Form
 Upload resume
 By 12/15: Send out five internship applications
 By 1/15/21:
 Second letter of recommendation to Carol
 By 1/15/21: Send out five more internship applications
 1/15/21: Deadline to Commit to Program
 2/12/21: UCDC Optional Elective Enrollment Begins
 Monday, 3/22: Program Begins
 Friday, 6/4: Program Ends

6. Course Enrollment
• Three parts: 2 required, 1 optional
• Seminar:
– Poli Sci/Hist/Soc/Comm/Pub Aff
M191DC
• Internship: Poli Sci/Hist/Soc/Pub
Affairs M195DC
• February: Optional UCDC electives

7. Internship Search
 Focus on remote internships relevant to
your research interest
 Use sources that specify remote:
traversejobs.com, idealist.org,
Handshake, UCDC leads
 Use your connections!

8. Internship Search
 Read internship descriptions carefully.
 Remote option?
 Are you qualified?
 Requires semester-length commitment?
grad/law students only?
 Get organized! Internship Tracking Table:
 Deadlines
 Required materials
 Contact person, title, etc.
 When submitted, when you followed up,
etc.

9. Internship Search

10. Internship Search
 Application attached to
professional email
 Send all docs as pdfs
 Follow-up email
 Interview
 Post-interview thank-you email
 Accept or decline: GAME OVER

11. Internship Search: Professional Emails
Dear Ms. Aniel,
My name is Jane Bruin. I am a junior majoring in History at UCLA, and I will be participating in the remote UCLA
Quarter in Washington Program (UCDC) this spring. I am available to intern remotely March 22, 2021 to June 4,
2021, 24 to 32 hours per week. I am writing to submit an application for an internship with the Woodrow
Wilson International Center for Scholars Cold War International History Project.
[Sentence or two about your own specific interest in/qualifications for the internshp.]
Attached are my cover letter, resume, transcript, and a brief writing sample. [If copies of letters of
recommendation are required, add “My letters of recommendation will follow via email directly from
Alfreda Brock at the UC Washington Center.] I look forward to hearing from you soon.
Sincerely,
Jane Bruin
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Political Science | UCLA Class of 2019
jane.bruin@ucla.edu | t: 310-123-45678

12. Internship Search
 Letters of Recommendation
Submission Requests
 No need for repeated requests to
recommenders
 All letters uploaded to Box folder
 After you submit an application,
email Alfreda Brock with instructions

13. Next Steps
 2nd Letter of Rec to Carol by 1/15
 Begin researching internships
 One-on-one meetings with Carol
 Resume revision
 Cover letters
 calendly.com/carolwald