| Course ID: | PBGG 9980. 1-3 hours. Repeatable for maximum 6 hours credit. |
| Course Title: | Graduate Internship in Plant Breeding, Genetics, and Genomics |
Course
Description: | Provides work experience with private companies to enhance
management and leadership skills in plant breeding, genetics, and
genomics. A presentation to PBGG is required upon completion of
the internship. |
| Oasis Title: | Graduate Internship in PBGG |
| Nontraditional Format: | Internship is formally arranged per existing PBGG guidelines,
with approval of the student's major professor. The credit hours
available are variable contingent on the amount of time spent on
the internship experience (1 credit hour = 120 hours worked). |
| Prerequisite: | Permission of department |
Semester Course
Offered: | Offered fall, spring and summer semester every year. |
| Grading System: | S/U (Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory) |
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| Course Objectives: | • Know what to expect in a job
• Learn how a good breeder deals with people, deadlines, stress,
etc.
• Know what techniques and knowledge is being used,
which in turn helps identify knowledge/training gaps in their
current training
• Find out personal strengths and weaknesses
• Networking-gives colleagues and potential employers
a chance to get to know the person
• Help with career choice
• Self confidence that comes from evaluations and
feedback given during the internship
• Learn materials not available on campus-like some of
the breeding software and use of some molecular marker systems
• Learn about future employment opportunities
• Increase chances of getting their job of choice |
| Topical Outline: | • The student and internship provider will mutually
agree to a customized learning experience relevant to plant
breeding, genetics, and genomics
• The intern is responsible to ensure that they work all
the details out in advance, including the necessary
documentation, permissions, conflict of interest, and
confidentiality agreements
• The internship provider gets to set work hours,
conditions, etc.
• The internship provider provides a stipend and travel
expenses
• The internship provider will provide a performance
evaluation at the end
• The intern agrees to abide by their employer's
requirements
• The intern is cognizant that they are also acting as
ambassadors of the IPBGG and are to put forth their very best
efforts, ethics, and personal standards while on the internship |
| Honor Code Reference: | UGA Student Honor Code: "I will be academically honest in all
of my academic work and will not tolerate academic dishonesty
of others." A Culture of Honesty, the University's policy and
procedures for handling cases of suspected dishonesty, can be
found at www.uga.edu/ovpi. Every course syllabus should include
the instructor's expectations related to academic integrity. |