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Students have a one-semester practicum with an organization or agency that works internatinally but is headquartered in Washington, DC. Students work alongside professionals learning the ins and outs of running an organization and assist them in many areas such as research, writing reports, reviewing projects and programs, creating informative web pages, interviewing people in the field, investigating possible project sites - the work varies to the student's interests and the organizations' needs. Students have done practicums at:
  
  
 
 
  
Students must also complete a one semester internship overseas.
Malawi National Deaf Association with the Finland Association of the Deaf
Helen Keller International in Indonesia
 
International Deaf Association in the Philippines
Department Activities and Events
.JPG) International Development students viewed the premier of the film, "La Americana" at the Inter-American Development Bank (IADB). The film centers around a Bolivian woman who makes a dangerous and illegal journey to New York City knowing she may never return home, to earn enough money to pay for the medical care needed for her disabled daughter. Pictured here is the director of the film, Nicholas Bruckman, (center) with Eirin Kallestad (second from left) from the IADB, and graduate students Kathleen Wijiting, Sarah Houge, and ID graduate, Lisa Fisher.
 International Development Graduate Students (from left), Amii Limpp, Nicar Bocalan and Dayak Dashuwar, attended Mental Disability Rights International (MDRI) 15th year anniversary celebration on Tuesday Oct. 20th. MDRI presented Congressman Patrick Kennedy with the Human Rights Award. This celebration had an amazing line up of inspiring speakers featuring Executive Director of MDRI Eric Rosenthal, Entrepreneur and Investment Banker Ted Kennedy Jr,. and Ecuadorian Ambassador Luis Gallegos. Congressman Patrick Kennedy called for a united front against genocide, torture and abuse of people with disabilities.
 Sarah Houge, a second year student in the international development master's program, presents a gift of thanks to David Morrissey, executive director of the United States International Council on Disability (USICD), for speaking to students about USICD's work in advocating for the ratification of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD). Morrissey also spoke to the students about the importance of working, writing, and volunteering during their graduate studies in areas that build their portfolio and moves them in the direction of their desired careers.
| Dr. Amy Wilson makes a presentation on the using a socicultural participatory model of research when working with people with disablities in developing countries at the Third International Conference on Disablity in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia in March, 2009. The goal of the conference was to examine and promote the role of research in preventing disability and improving the quality of life of individuals with disabilities, and the means of facilitating that through international partnerships targeted at high impact research. |
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Teresa Burke from the Department of Religion and Philosophy and Dr. Amy Wilson, Director of the MA Program in International Development, meet with Deaf women after their presentations.
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