Career Courses, Internship Credit

Unsure about whether your department offers internship course credit? Check out the document below for a complete list of Arts and Sciences departments that offer internship courses.

Policies for awarding academic credit for internships vary across departments. Some academic departments will accept the enrollment of students from any major into their internship courses, within the guidelines set by their faculty. Other departments award independent study credit for successful completion of an internship because they don’t have internship courses.

To earn academic credit, you will need to complete assignments specified by the department and work for a minimum number of hours at the internship site. Students register and pay tuition for these credit hours in the same manner as other classroom learning experiences.

When seeking credit for an internship, you should plan to:

• Provide the department contact with a copy of the internship description.
• Contact the department about the possibility of obtaining credit BEFORE you begin the internship (the general guideline is to request credit at least two weeks before the term starts).

A word of caution: Internship postings published by companies sometimes include statements like, "school credit is available." You need to know that the decision about whether or not a particular internship is worthy of academic credit resides with the university’s academic departments – not the companies that recruit students.  If you are denied enrollment in a department internship course, you might be able to obtain approval to enroll in one of the college-level internship courses.

INTERNSHIP COURSES OPEN TO ALL ASC MAJORS

You are encouraged to first check with an academic department to see if the particular internship you are considering meets their requirements for obtaining academic credit. If course credit is not available from an academic department, you can enroll in either ARTSSCI 1191 or ARTSSCI 3191.02 as long as:

1. The internship has first been approved by the Center for Career and Professional Success,
2. You are seeking to enroll BEFORE the “last day to add a course without a petition” deadline, and
3. You have a minimum cumulative GPA of 2.0.

Because of the time required to review enrollment requests, you are strongly encouraged to submit your enrollment request form no later than a week prior to the start of the semester or session. Please note that the ARTSSCI internship courses are subject to the same late enrollment fees as “regular courses”. Enrollment in the ARTSSCI internship courses is based on location of internship. If you will be working on-site for an employer located in another state, you will be charged out-of-state tuition and fees. If you are doing 100% virtual work for an employer located in another state, you will not be charged out-of-state tuition and fees.