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 (PDF)

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 during the 2008-09 academic year.

The deadline for application is April 30th.

Interested students may pick up an application from Career Services or download it.

The application must also include:

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

Completed applications should be emailed to:  careers@clarku.edu
Attn: The Barth Selection Committee
 

If you have questions, please contact Sharon Hanna at shanna@clarku.edu or 508-793-7258.

Read about the projects of recent Barth interns.

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