Internships

Looking for a way to organize your digital media collection for foreign language instruction?

The REALIA project can hire a student to work for you...

The REALIA Project invites language faculty to nominate students for editorial internship positions. These interns sort, edit, and describe your digital images for inclusion in the REALIA Project, a searchable database of royalty-fee digital images for use in language and cultural instruction. REALIA Project images depict "realia," images that convey the everyday life of different cultures.

  • YOU benefit: Your digital media are sorted, edited, and described.
  • STUDENTS benefit: $11/hr for their work, plus experience working on a large educational project.
  • The COMMUNITY benefits: Royalty-free resources for use in instruction, available online.

Which students can apply?

To apply for an internship, students must meet these criteria:

  1. Be a student at a NITLE participating institution (See a list of participating institutions)
  2. Have access to between 250-1000 images for REALIA language collection (see the project Image Guidelines). Note that these images must already exist and the photographer must be willing to sign a release form.
  3. Be fluent or near-fluent in the target language spoken in the country or countries depicted in those images.
  4. Have a language faculty member at their campus who agrees to review the student's work.
  5. Be eligible to work or have permission to work in the United States. *

How do students apply?

To apply for an intern position, the student proposes a project: a collection of digital images to sort, edit, and describe.

The student also submits a timeline for completing the project. As part of the application, the student includes and describes 5 digital images from the collection that he or she will be working on, reporting the amount of time taken to complete the description process. This time-tracking process will help the student estimate accurately how long it will take him or her to complete the proposed project.

The student submits the completed application form (download the file here) by email to the address provided on the form.

How does the internship work?

If the student's project is accepted, students use the REALIA Project's online, web-based tools to upload and describe the cultural content of images, which includes creating titles, descriptions, vernacular descriptions, and other descriptive fields.

Students are paid $11/hour for their work and are compensated on a monthly basis. Students are expected to demonstrate progress on their project on a regular basis.

About the REALIA Project

The REALIA Project is managed by NITLE (the National Institute for Technology and Liberal Education). The funding for this and other project activities comes from a generous grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities.




* International students who are not US citizens may be eligible to work as interns if their institution approves their participation according to the guidelines for Curricular Practical Training. In this case, students will need to provide documentation of such approval with their application.