Internship Orientation course

Check with your department to see if this course is offered (typically one credit, meeting 50 minutes once a week for 15 weeks)

The course teaches:
• purpose and benefits of doing an internship
• helps you create a vision for your future and explore possible careers
• resume writing
• interviewing skills
• professionalism in the workplace
• dining etiquette (in case you find yourself at a business lunch or dinner)
• helps you develop objectives that you want to accomplish during your internship
• understand responsibilities: yours, your site supervisor and your faculty supervisor
• identifying a site that is right for you
• internship search skills (including communications with employers by phone and email)
• internship paperwork: how to complete forms and signatures required
• timeline to guide your personal internship search
• how to put together your internship presentation