Undergraduate Study

Registering for Internships

• Registering for Graduate Internships
• Registering for Undergraduate Internships
• How to Register for an Internship
• After You Complete Your Internship:  Exit Requirements

English graduate students may register for E687 Internship. Multiple internships may be taken for credit. Students may register for between 1 and 5 academic credits for each internship, with roughly 40 hours of work for each credit. No more than 6 credits of E687 Internship and E684 Supervised College Teaching may be applied toward the completion of a graduate degree in English, although more credits may appear on a transcript. Prerequisites for the course are enrollment in a Department graduate program and a minimum G.P.A. of 3.0. The E687 Registration Form is available online in Portable Document Format.

Internships can be taken with authorized placements within the English Department, as well as with businesses, institutions, and agencies in the following areas:

• teaching college English
• composition supervision/administration
• literary editing
• teaching ESL
• ESL adult learning
• ESL supervision/administration
• arts administration in literature
• public education
• computers and writing
• writing/editing for specific purposes

Registering for Undergraduate Internships

Junior and senior English majors may register for E487 Internship. The course is designed to provide work experience in jobs requiring extensive use of reading and writing skills. Prerequisites for the course are a 2.5 GPA, written consent of an advisor, and completion of all lower division major requirements and communication skills requirements. Students can enroll for a maximum of 3 credits in the course. The E487 Registration Form is available online in Portable Document Format.

Notes

1. Although E487 will not fulfill upper division major requirements, the course may count toward second field requirements. Examples: a student pursuing a second field in history interns as an editorial assistant with a historical journal; or a student with a second field in journalism works for an off-campus newspaper.
2. To receive credit for a winter break (December-January) internship, you must register for E487 in the spring semester. For summer internship credit, you may register for the summer session or for the following fall semester.

How to Register for an Internship

1. Read "Guidelines for the Prospective Intern."
2. File an application form with the Internship Coordinator.
3. Work with your prospective supervisor to write a job description, if a description is not already available.
4. Read and understand "Internship Guidelines for Supervisors."
5. Read, understand, and sign "Information Regarding Liability Protection and Workers' Compensation Insurance for Interns."
6. Read, understand and sign the "Internship Contract."
7. Complete the English Department internship registration form, obtain signatures, and
   • submit it to the English Department
   • deliver a copy to the Internship Coordinator
   • obtain your registration number from the graduate program administrative assistant
   • register

After You Complete Your Internship:  Exit Requirements.

So that the Internship Coordinator is able to assess your internship experience and award a grade (Satisfactory or Unsatisfactory), you will need to complete all or some of the following exit requirements:

1. Summary Paper
2. Reactionnaire and
3. Internship Assessment Survey

In addition, your internship supervisor will be required to:

1. Write an assessment letter and
2. respond to a supervisor's survey (Supervisor assessment form you fill out). 

Specific requirements vary, according to whether you are a graduate student or undergraduate and whether you are working with a supervisor from CSU or a cooperating agency.  For details, contact Deanna Ludwin.

For information about course offerings and registration procedures for the upcoming semester or summer session, please view the Rambler, the Department's student newsletter.

This information is not intended to replace your advisor or the information in the CSU General Catalog, the Class Schedule, or the Department Checksheets.