Washington Semester Program
 |
| Amanda Pickens '09 interned for Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina |
Internships in the nation's capital are most easily available through the Lutheran College Washington Semester Program, which was founded in 1986 by a core group of Lutheran colleges to provide a quality residential Washington DC semester exclusively for their students. The LCWS is a small, personalized program where you live, study, and intern while earning academic credit from Roanoke College. Students take two, one-unit academic courses taught by professors from surrounding universities as well as a two-unit internship.
River Place Apartments is located in Arlington and is home to the thirteen residential condominiums the students reside in while attending the program. The LCWS also maintains its own administrative offices, classrooms, computer lab, conference room, and study lounge in River Place Apartments. Located across the street from the US Marine Corps Memorial, also known as the Iwo Jima Memorial, River Place is within walking distance to the metro, a grocery store, several restaurants, the Rosslyn Post Office, and many other stores and attractions.
In recent years, Roanoke College students attending the program have interned at the White House, the Supreme Court, the State Department, the Organization of American States, the DC Corporation Counsel, the ACLU, the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, the DC Rape Crisis Center, and on Capital Hill.
Student Intern Experience, 2013
Roanoke Magazine article, Fall 2011
View a story about four students participating in 2010.
Listen to What a Roanoke College Students Says about the Program
See www.washingtonsemester.org for more information.
Contact:
Dr. Todd Peppers | 375-2417 | West Hall 212
 |
 |
Fed. Judge Internship Prepares Student for Law School
“It is uncommon for undergraduates to even have the opportunity to intern in the chambers of a federal judge,” says Assistant Professor of Public Affairs Dr. Todd Peppers.
