Jordan

Internship and Seminar – syllabus
(ITRN3000 / 4 credits)

This seminar consists of a 5-week internship with a local community organization, health institution, or international NGO. The internship enables students to gain valuable internship experience and enhance their skills in a professional, international environment. SIT internships are hands-on and reflective. In addition to completing the internship, students will submit a paper processing their learning experience on the job and analyzing an issue important to the organization they interned with, and/or they will design a socially responsible solution to a problem identified by the organization.

Sample internships include:

• Providing relief to Syrian refugees and vulnerable Jordanians with the International Rescue Committee
• Working with farmers, women, and refugees living in poverty with Care International
• Assisting epidemiologists with the Eastern Mediterranean Public Health Network
• Promoting health awareness with the Jordan Health Aid Society
• Supporting the efforts of Arab Renaissance for Democracy and Development-Legal Aid to raise legal awareness among vulnerable populations, fight injustice, and promote equality
• Assisting the International Committee of the Red Cross’s humanitarian responses to Syrian refugees and Jordanian host communities
• Monitoring and evaluating healthcare services provided to refugees by Jordan Health Aid Association
• Designing and implementing art therapy and women’s empowerment projects at River Jordan Foundation’s Queen Rania Family and Child Center
• Writing proposals for funding vulnerable communities’ economic empowerment projects at Durrat Al Manal

Contextual Studies in Counseling and Humanitarian Action – syllabus
(MDES3000 / 3 credits)

This seminar is focused on the study of humanitarian aid and counseling in Jordan. Over decades, Jordan has become home to millions of refugees and displaced populations from Palestine and more recently from Iraq and Syria. The seminar provides first-hand exposure to the humanitarian response of various UN agencies in Jordan, most notably the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), World Health Organization (WHO), and the United Nation’s International Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF), during the emergency, post-emergency, and resettlement phases, in collaboration with the host government. The seminar also addresses the common principles, rights, and duties governing humanitarian action as set out in the humanitarian charter, as well as the priority humanitarian interventions and minimum standards across the various sectors of humanitarian work, with special emphasis on the health sector.