Shepherd Higher Education Consortium on Poverty
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Successful applicants for SHECP tend to have taken a course on inequality or one that touches on poverty. You may count courses that you plan to take during the spring of the year you are applying. If you have questions email us at levitt@hamilton.edu. While not an exhaustive list, possible courses include:
- Biology 214: Health Care Systems
- College 240: Natural Disaster in the U.S
- Econ 166: Economic Theory and Evidence
- Econ 235/236: Policy, Poverty, and Practice I and II
- Econ 340: Economics of Development
- Econ 342: Urban Economics
- Econ 350: Economics of Poverty and Income Redistribution
- Educ 202: ESOL/SHINE
- Envst 334: Environmental Justice, Law, and Policy
- Government 234: The Politics of Equality
- Government 363W: Poverty and Development
- Sociology 232W: Poverty and Inequality
- WMGST-314: Seminar on Feminist Perspectives on Class in the U.S.
- WMGST-327: Seminar on Aging
Early June through end of July.
Hamilton’s deadline is January 6th
The Levitt Center will contact you in early January to arrange an interview, and will make selections in early February.
Students must be first-years, sophomores, or juniors to apply. The Levitt Council will use a rubric based on SHECP’s guideline recommendations for selecting interns including maturity, genuine interest in issues of poverty and human capability, flexibility, academic aptitude, and humility and emotional intelligence. It will also consider relevant coursework, volunteer and internship experience, and the lived experience of poverty.
SHECP and/or Hamilton College will cover the cost of housing and transportation, and provide a food stipend. In addition, students who choose to participate in additional activities over the summer will receive an additional $1000 educational award that will be applied to their College account at the end of the summer.
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