Internship Tutorial Overview

Internship Tutorials will offer students the opportunity to meet with each other and a member of faculty in order to reflect upon their internship experience. Since your London placement is an academic course, in addition to performing a role in a British organization, you must also meet a number of academic requirements to successfully complete the placement. During your Tutorial you will be required to produce coursework related to your internship. The quality of your work on these requirements will account for your final grade.

The Internship Tutorials will meet on three occasions; the first meeting near the last Core class the second meeting during week nine, and the third meeting during week twelve.

Course Objectives

•    To encourage students to make connections between their internships and what they have learned in the related core course

•    To provide clear guidelines on the Internship Course assessment process

•    To provide assistance in successfully completing the Internship Course assessment process

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Internship Placements

Hospitality/Tourism
Study British culture and learn how the tourism industry works in the UK. Students intern in such placement areas as travel, hotel, and restaurant marketing and public relations. Past internships have included the London Hilton, Hyatt Regency London, Nobu and One Marylebone Road.

Course Comments

“Both the internship tutorials and the internship itself were extremely fulfilling.” Anon., Fall 2009

“Great teacher, very entertaining and I learned a lot from him.” Anon., Fall 2009

Faculty Information

Andy Charlton holds a L.L.B (Honours) Degree from University College London, after which he qualified and practised as a solicitor. In 1998 he qualified as a (London Tourist Board) Blue Badge Guide and now lectures on many aspects of Britain for various colleges and organisations. He works regularly in sports tourism and events, including work for the All England Lawn Tennis Club in Wimbledon, for Princeton University Hockey Club and for a number of years for Arsenal Football Club. He qualified as a Parliament Guide in 1999 and takes lecture tours of the Palace of Westminster and regularly guides the Tower of London, Westminster Abbey, St. Paul's Cathedral, Tate Britain and the British Museum. He is a member of the Association of Professional Tourist Guides and a founder member of the Institute of Tourist Guiding, for whom he has written their published booklets on British Sport and British Popular Music. In 2003 he wrote and set up a guided tour for members of the public for the Horniman Museum in Forest Hill and in 2004 he did the same thing for the Imperial War Museum in London. Also in 2004 he set up and ran walking tours of the Bankside area in Southwark, London, for the new Tourist Information Centre on Bankside for Southwark Council. Since 2005 he has worked with the Aspire project through South Bank University, working with school children who might not necessarily choose further education, the aim being to inspire them through tourism opportunities to see if further education might be for them after all. Since 2007 he has lectured at and offered guided walks to the public through the National Portrait Gallery. In 2008 he was commissioned to write the guidebook for the Horniman Museum, set up and ran a series of rock n roll Soho walks, wrote and delivered various lecture programmes, including British Multiculturalism, the British Peerage, British Prime Ministers, the Victorians, Shakespeare, Britain in World War 2, the Bloomsbury Group and the Edwardians, and the British Museum, in particular focusing on the acquisition of the treasures of that museum, amongst other subjects. Since 2006 he has lectured on Olympic Sport for the Blue Badge Guide London 2012 Olympic Accreditation Course and continues to lecture on the Blue Badge Guide training course.  He has been  involved at the National Portrait Gallery in the launch of the London 2012  Cultural Olympiad in 2008 and will continue to be involved with various  projects at various institutions in the run up to the London Games in the next few years.

Course Syllabus and Materials

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