Internship Information (Guidelines for ARH 498 and ART 498) |
General
Requirements |
•Students should be juniors or seniors with a GPA of at least 3.00 within the major to engage in an internship. |
•All internship agencies or individuals (artists) must be approved agencies in the Department of Art and Art History. |
•Internships may only be supervised by full-time, permanent faculty. |
•The general rule of thumb is for every credit hour granted, the student should complete three hours of work. Thus, a 3-credit internship requires approximately 135 hours of work during the semester. Internships may be done for either 3 or 6 credit hours, with 3 credits typical. |
•Internships require prior approval of the faculty supervisor and the internship agency (or individual). There must be an informal interview with the agency and the student before paperwork is completed. |
Student
Responsibilities |
•The
student is responsible for procuring and reading the "Internship
Workbook" published by the Office of Career Services (click
here to download this publication: 1,300k PDF file) and should
understand that these standards also serve as a general syllabus
of student requirements and assignments. (Requires Adobe
Acrobat Reader.) |
•The student is responsible for approaching the Internship Coordinator with a brief written proposal outlining the nature of the proposed internship and its intended goals. |
•The student must arrange a preliminary interview with the agency (or individual) at a mutually convenient time (contact information will be given by the Internship Coordinator). |
•If
the interview is positive and the internship is to proceed, the
student must procure a "Permission to Enroll/Experiental education
Course Form," (click here to download
this form: 48k MS Word document) and in consultation with the
agency (or individual) and the faculty supervisor complete the answers
to the questions on the form. |
•The student must also procure the signature of the agency supervisor on the enrollment form, and make certain that the faculty supervisor (or Internship Coordinator) and department chair have signed the form before it is submitted to the dean for final approval. |
•All
paperwork, signatures, and registration procedures should be completed
before the beginning of the semester in which the internship
is to take place. Ideally, the student has completed all of this business no later than the pre-registration period of the preceding semester. |
