***Welcome to the home page of Dr. Susan Chizeck****

 

Director of Internships, Interdisciplinary Studies, at the University of Texas at Dallas

 

I am a Senior Lecturer II and direct the Internship Program and Independent Studies for Interdisciplinary Studies.

 

Office: Green 2.310     Office Hours Spring 2009 generally M, T, Th, F 1:30-4:30 and by appointment

 

Email: chizeck@utdallas.edu

 

Phone: 972-883-2248 or 972-883-2057 for Debbie Buckner, my assistant.  Fax: 972-883-2440

 

For general information on internships and application forms, see Debbie Buckner, GR 2.242 (x2057).  Internship applications are available from in front of GR 2.242 or GR 2.310.   Or see the Internship web pages    http://www.utdallas.edu/dept/is/internship/index.html

Updated assignments should appear every semester.

 

I am also the wife of Dr. William Pervin, Prof. of Engineering, UTD, and mother of Hannah Pervin, a Biology/Japanese/Statistics major at University of Pittsburgh.

 

Resume:

BA History, 1969 Douglass College of Rutgers University,

MA 1971 East Asian Studies, Stanford University (specialty in Japanese)

MA 1975 Sociology, Princeton University,

Ph.D. 1983 Social Work, Rutgers University (Public Policy and Administration)

 

I have held jobs ranging from Management Consultant, editor and writer, biofeedback instructor, stop smoking instructor, manager of a health education company, executive director of a worldwide economics research program at Princeton, executive director of a halfway house for schizophrenics, MIS consultant to NJ state government, researcher in child welfare programs, editor of biochemistry journals at Stanford, administrative assistant at Harvard Physics Dept., researcher in urban planning programs, etc. I've done many things, traveled many places, and therefore am ideal for the Interdisciplinary Studies Program.

 

At UTD I have taught: Intro to Social Work, Deviance, Sociology of Health, GS core course in writing and critical thinking, The American Health System, and Drug and Alcohol Policy. I am available to do independent studies in health and health policy, social welfare, drugs and alcohol studies, and management issues.

 

Last updated on 3/18/2009