Pre-requisite: A or B+ in 355:201 or 355:301 or 355:302 or 355:303
URWC 2027
Tuesday, April 13, 2027. The URWC website is here.
Spring 2027 Course Information
01:355:396 section # and meeting information forthcoming.
Internship Admission Requirements:
Students must apply for the internship at this link: forthcoming.
They must have received an A or B+ in a research writing course at RU (355:201 or 301 or 302 or 303); they must have a GPA of at least 3.0; they must be willing and able to follow through with independent work and be responsible to the students they are assigned to help.
Course Description:
Interns will create the annual Undergraduate Research Writing Conference (URWC), which takes place every April in the Livingston Student Center (date announced on the URWC website each year). Interns are responsible for attending the entire day of the conference and will assist at the registration table, the Poster Fair, and as Moderators in the panel rooms.
In preparation for the URWC, interns will select papers, organize, and publicize the event. They will work closely with a RU Writing Program faculty member to read and evaluate submitted papers, serve as the final selection committee, and act as respondents/advisors to student-presenters as they develop their work for multimedia presentations. The conference is multidisciplinary: papers are drawn from the Humanities, Arts, Science, Business, etc.
Interns will serve as marketing experts, creating press releases for RU news media, designing promotional materials, building a social media presence, and helping to design the multi-page conference on a permanent site at Rutgers. While some tasks will be mandatory, interns will have the ability to customize the experience and work on those projects that are most interesting to them.
Interns should plan on spending as much time in the internship as they would in a regular 3-credit course (somewhere between 5 and 8 hours per week, on average). The workload varies with the stages of conference planning. Most of the work will be done independently, though we will meet in groups, either in-person or on Zoom, throughout the semester.
Why take this class?
This kind of internship looks great on a resume. It is well-suited for students who are:
- interested in editing, publishing, conference planning, event production, web design, graphic design, communication and marketing
- planning on attending graduate school in a field where participation in academic conferences is expected
- interested in planning a large-scale event that serves the Rutgers University community.
URWC Archive @Rutgers Libraries
URWC in The Daily Targum
