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Internship/Practicum Criteria

To qualify as an Applied Learning Experience in Internship/Practicum:

• Internship Criteria:
  • To be eligible for applied learning internships, students must have completed at least 30 semester credit hours
  • The internship experience must include a minimum cumulative total of 225 hours
  • Each student must have at least (a) an on-site supervisor and (b) a representative of the Office of Internships or a faculty/staff member to serve as the applied learning supervisor.
  • Applied learning credit cannot be granted retroactively, e.g., for prior internships or work experiences
  • Ongoing places of employment cannot qualify as internships; however, students can submit proposals to develop their current places of employment into internship sites
  • Self-owned businesses cannot qualify as internships sites for these business owners.
• Practicum Criteria:
  • Practicum is defined as a course or student exercise/project involving practical experience applied to theoretical study.
  • Students must be enrolled in the class offering the practicum
  • Students must spend a minimum of 75 hours working on out of classroom experience/projects. Instructional time on theoretical content cannot be counted towards this limit.
  • Project work/experience must be under the supervision of the course instructor or a qualified third-party client.
  • Final project/artifact will require an outside evaluation by a third party/expert in the field not involved in the instruction of the course.