For the Summer of 2012 Rutgers Gardens is offering a new Summer Program, combining classroom time with hands on experience.

For the first time, Rutgers Gardens is offering a 3 credit internship class.  This will provide not only a more intensive educational element, reinforcing what is learned from working in the Gardens, but it will also add professional development in the form of resume writing and related skills.  The class will be broken into 2 sections: Section 1 is Plant Breeding and Section 2 is a Collaborative with Central Park.  The classroom activities will be identical for both sections but the hands-on portion will vary according to the section. The hands on portion of both sections receive hourly paid compensation.
Some of the goals shared by both sections include:  

• Overview of the Management of Public Gardens  
• A basic understanding of Horticulture, Design and Management as it applies to Public Gardens
• Opportunities to interact with various members of the Green Industry throughout New Jersey
• Exposure to programming that focuses upon children and volunteers
• Time management (completing a task in an efficient, cost effective manner).  Important for meeting expectations for subsequent green industry review.
• Focus upon resume writing and improvements
• A review of interview strategies and anticipated conduct during an interview
• Professional networking with Public Gardens outside of NJ
• Teamwork experience
• Leadership opportunities
  

Section 1

2012 Collaborative Summer Internship Program

11:550:437 Special Problems in Landscape Architecture, Section 1

Section 2

2012 Plant Breeding Internship Program

11:550:437 Special Problems in Landscape Architecture, Section 2

 

Application for Internship

Help support our Student Internship Program

For more information on our internship program please contact Bruce Crawford

Last Modified: 04/04/2012, rugardens@njaes.rutgers.edu.
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