<p>I was wondering if a current or past Northwestern student can talk about the Chicago Field Studies Program. I was wondering how it fit into the schedule. What kind of internships are available? There's not much information about it on CC and I was hoping to get some student perspective about the program.</p>
<p>Thanks for the input!</p>
<p>CFS usually has relationships with different companies that allows them to place one or a few interns there every year. Your name is sachmoney, one of the companies who participates is goldman sachs, and it is a program in their asset management division i believe.</p>
<p>what happens is you do your internship full-time for four days of the week, and one day of the week you will have a class where you analyze and discuss your experience, write papers about it, etc.</p>
<p>you get a full quarter of credit for it (four credits) and you have to pay full tuition to northwestern during that quarter. the internship is for academic credit so you also aren't allowed to get paid.</p>
<p>thanks a lot...hahaha, thanks for including my username in your response. that was clever. Do you know if anyone has taken part in the program? Is it a worthwhile experience to do a sort of work for credit class, rather than do an internship during a summer or something as such?</p>
<p>many people take part in the program, and in fact, in the school of education and social policy, it is a requirement to do a field study for one quarter in order to graduate.</p>
<p>and i would say it's definitely a worthwhile experience because it allows you to work at companies like goldman sachs without going through the traditional application process, and you are then able to have big names like that on your resume when finding later internships.</p>
<p>even if you do your field studies somewhere outside of finance, such as at the field museum (where i think they offer spots), i would say it is still a very worthwhile experience in that you are able to literally work in the city of chicago, get firsthand experience in a field that interests you, all while receiving course credit for doing so and getting a 'break' from all your studies.</p>
<p>it's awesome that northwestern is right next to chicago and CFS is a great way to take advantage of such a lucrative location in a program that wouldn't be able to be offered at, say, dartmouth, so i would say it is definitely a great opportunity</p>
<p>It's definitely a program that I am interested in if I do go to Northwestern.</p>
<p>And there are binders upon binders of experiential reviews once you get here, if you want to read about the kinds of things people have done. Overall I have heard very positive things (I have to do my required one for SESP this spring!).</p>
<p>Do you know what you're doing for your CFS?</p>
<p>In the process of figuring that out now. (FYI, in SESP it is called a Practicum.)</p>
<p>How hard is it to get into? I can't believe I didn't ask this before.</p>
<p>CFS? I thought anyone can do it if it works with their credits/major/etc... but I have no idea since I have to do it.</p>
<p>nice, gives me another opportunity to do an internship.</p>
<p>Does anyone not from SESP have any input on how hard it is to do this program?</p>
<p>PS, since Sachmoney asked earlier, I found out today I am doing my practicum in the Entertainment</a> division of Starcom. Very exciting, it's where I wanted to be!</p>
<p>That's pretty good, congratulations!</p>
<p>dfleish,</p>
<p>congrats. don't get fat there though; it's not uncommon media agencies/entertainment companies stock their kitchens with tons of junk food to pamper their employees. :D</p>
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<p>it's required for most (all?) SESP majors so... not hard...</p>
<p>I meant like for non-SESP majors, Is it hard to get into the program. Anyone can answer. I guess I phrased it poorly.</p>
<p>the program for non-SESP majors is called Chicago Field Studies, and anyone can enroll, if your GPA is below a 3.0 you need a letter of rec.</p>
<p>So then it's not that hard to do. That's great. CFS? That's the title of this thread huh?</p>