Career Services

Types of Internships

Academic Credit Internships

An academic internship is any credit-bearing career-related work experience of limited duration in which an individual takes on responsible roles outside of the traditional university environment: in a non-profit organization, a government office, or a for-profit business. Programs can be structured or unstructured, as long as there is training and supervision involved and you are receiving academic credit. It is a valuable form of professional training that provides students with the opportunity to test their career interests in an off campus setting. Positions may or may not be paid, and students can do credited internships during the fall, spring or summer terms.

Summer Internships

Students must adhere to the Undergraduate Internship Application process to receive summer internship credit. However, the following procedures are different from the semester program.

  • All students must register and pay a fee for their internship credit through COPACE (The College of Professional and Continuing Education).
  • COPACE offers two summer sessions. Students must submit their application materials according to the internship office deadlines. These deadlines are based on one week prior to the add/drop date for each summer session.

*** DUE TO STRINGENT INS REGULATIONS, ALL INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS MUST COMPLETE THEIR INTERNSHIP APPLICATION MATERIALS PRIOR TO THE FIRST DAY OF THEIR INTERNSHIP EXPERIENCE. ***

Please meet with the Director of International Students and Scholars Office when planning to do any internship in the United States to ensure that the necessary immigration paperwork is completed.

Summer internship planning should take place throughout the academic year to ensure you will have a Full-time faculty member willing to sponsor you and have ample time to prepare your internship application.

Barth Summer Internship Award

Application for Barth Summer Internship Award

Thanks to the generosity of the Theodore Barth Foundation, Career Services is able to offer Clark undergraduate students a $2500 stipend (6 total awards) to support unpaid, summer internships in the nonprofit sector.

This funded internship opportunity is open to Clark undergraduate sophomores and juniors who plan to complete an unpaid summer internship within a non-profit organization. Students awarded the Barth Internship Award will be required to participate in an internship student panel, or poster presentation, during the academic year.

The deadline for application is Tuesday, April 19th at noon. 

Interested students should download an application.

The application must also include:

  • 2-3 page statement describing your internship*
  • proposed budget (costs involved such as travel, housing, etc)
  • resume
  • copy of your unofficial transcript

Selection criteria includes, but is not limited to:
Quality of proposal, financial need, value of career enhancing experience, and past participation with Career Services.

*Internships must be secured before the April 19th deadline. Applications for internships that are pending will not be accepted. 

Completed applications should be emailed to:  careers@clarku.edu        Attn: The Barth Selection Committee
*Applications will only be accepted via e-mail*

If you have questions, please contact David McDonough at dmcdonough@clarku.edu or 508-793-7258.

Check out tips on proposal writing from the Office of Sponsored Programs and Research.

Read about the projects of recent Barth interns.

Learn more about ’09 Barth recipient Sam Palace’s summer internship with Kwiáht in San Juan Islands, WA!

Check out blogs from several of the Barth 2011interns: Natalia Jaramillo's '12 internship in Columbia to to conduct research on the impact of bullying, Yelena Finegold's ’12 internship with the the Iracambi Atlantic Rainforest Research and Conservation Center in Minas Gerais, Brazil. & Elizabeth Huff's '12 internship with the Jefferson Library at Monticello . 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Elizabeth Huff '12, Barth Intern who pursued a public services internship at The Jefferson Library at Monticello.

 

 

 

 

Rian Watt '14, Barth Recipient who interned with Congresswomen Jan Schakowsky office's in Evanston, IL.

 

 

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