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Arizona State University
Department of English
Box 870302
Tempe, AZ 85287-0302
480.965.3168

Main Office Location:
G. Homer Durham Language and Literature Building - LL 542

Internships

Working for Academic Credit

An internship is an arrangement between the university and businesses in which enrolled ASU students can explore career opportunities, gain practical knowledge of the workplace, and enhance skills in writing, editing, research, and document production including desktop publishing and mass media writing and production. Internships for an English major may also cross over into areas of journalism, communications, and technical editing and writing, and may be on- or off-campus. Internships may be offered by appropriate campus units, public agencies, nonprofit foundations, or private corporations.

Academic Requirements

Students pursuing an internship should have an academic classification as a Junior or Senior and be in good academic standing with at least a 2.5 GPA (for the Writing Certificate Program students need a 3.0 GPA). Students seeking an internship must seek permission by submitting an application and obtaining appropriate Departmental approval. The approval process is not complicated but must be done prior to engaging in any actual internship work.Students will be asked to submit a Position Description of the duties required by the internship and to develop, in conjunction with the site supervisor and the Intern Coordinator, an intern contract that can be assessed and monitored during the internship period.

Students may engage in an intersnhip either with our without earning academic credit. If a student wishes to earn credit for the Internship, he or she must be enrolled in the ENG 484 Internship course. This course is a forum for exchanging insights and information between the student and the Internship Instructor. During the course of the semester several conferences will be arranged between the student and the Intern Instructor.

When the internship is finally completed, interns meet with the Internship Instructor for a final evaluation conference. After reviewing the Job Supervisor's evaluation and intern's self-evaluation, the Internship Instructor will submit a grade to appear on the student's transcript. Internships may be graded on a standard A-E scale, or may be taken as Pass/Fail.

Officially, internships may be considered complete when the contracted number of hours has been finished, even if interns have not completed all the tasks they intended. Interns may choose to continue working, of course, to meet obligations made to supervisors, even after semester deadlines and the Internship Instructor's final evaluation conference, but the university does not require this.

For more Internship information and answers to some frequently asked questions, take a look at the following information: