What is an Internship?
- An academically-sponsored career-related work experience that may also provide students an opportunity to earn academic credits.
- Typically, a student may work between 120 to 320 hours in a given semester to earn a specified number of credit hours (10-20 site contact hours per week).
- Projects, research papers and/or reflective journal may be required by faculty for evaluation and reporting purposes.
- Fall and spring internships are part-time (generally 10-20 hrs per week): summer internships may be full or part-time.
- May be paid or unpaid opportunities; Fair Employment Act should be considered.
- Many internships are not for credit.