Intercultural Studies Internships
This essential experience gives ICS majors a foundational context for communicating and ministering across cultures.
Intercultural Studies (ICS) internships can be completed in a variety of ways depending on your goals. The Christian Ministries Department partners with other organizations to provide the following types of ICS internship experiences:
Faculty-led Trips
These are overseas mission trips led by a Northwestern professor, during which you will visit and explore a variety of ministries, cultures, countries, and religious groups. In order to provide significant cross-cultural and service-learning experience, these trips normally last at least three weeks.
Independent Internships
You may also choose to do an Independent Internship in an area of your choice, as long as it fits the course criteria. The Christian Ministries Department is developing relationships with a variety of international and domestic missions and nonprofit organizations through whom these internships can be completed. This internship needs to be pre-arranged with the Intercultural Studies professors and it must be approved by the Department Chair.
Past ICS internships
2020 – Cambodia, The Philippines, Thailand, and Japan
2018 – France, Central Asia, Thailand, and Japan
2016 ICS Internship Trip – China, Thailand, and Japan
2014 – Europe, Thailand, and Japan
2013 – China and Southeast Asia
2012 – Japan, Thailand, Southeast Asia, the Middle East, and the United Kingdom
Areas visited in previous trips: Israel, Europe, Africa, and the Pacific Rim.
The experience I will remember for the rest of my life is traveling over seas for almost three months. Right before Covid hit I had the opportunity to travel to Asia for just under three months. We got to go to Cambodia, Thailand, the Philippines, and Japan. During this time I met some of my life long friends, solidified my want to work with youth experiencing struggles, and truly saw how God is at work in so many people’s lives.
