INFORMATION FOR STUDENTS : Phone
972-883-2354 Fax: 972-883-2440
To qualify for an internship, a student must:
- Be a registered UTD undergraduate, graduate, or
special student.
- Have completed at least 15 hours at UTD
- Have a minimum 2.80 GPA in their major and 2.30
overall at UTD
- Discuss placement possibilities with the Director
of Internships
- Present a complete application with accompanying
documents
Students may apply to start an internship at
any time. If it is too late to register for
the current semester, you may register for
the following semester. However, International Students must be concurrently registered.
No hours for internship can be counted until the application is formally accepted.
All hours must be documented (in the required journal) and your supervisor
must supply all required performance evaluations.
An internship, in general:
- Is related to the student’s interdisciplinary
concentration or major.
- Is taken in the student’s junior or senior year.
- Is taken in conjunction with no more than 12 additional
hours of course work during the semester.
- Requires a minimum of 140 hours of supervised
work for 3 credits (280 for 6), about 10 hours per week for the
14 weeks of a regular semester. These hours and other observations
are documented in a journal kept by the student.
- Requires academic work agreed on with a faculty
supervisor: usually a 10-page paper and a reflective journal.
- Carries 1-6 hours credit.
Only three credits may be used in the Concentration
for Interdisciplinary Studies
majors. Check with your academic adviser
for placement your degree plan.
Interns are supervised by:
- Site Supervisor Assigns
work that develops professional skills.
- Makes sure the student completes the work assignments
satisfactorily.
- Certifies that the work experience has
been a learning experience that will contribute to the student’s
career aspirations.
- Internship Director Helps
set up the internship.
- Gives academic assignments (usually reading
assignments, a journal , written assignments requiring either
library research or research at the work site).
- Decides on the grade for an internship, based
on the student’s academic accomplishment and the site
supervisor’s evaluation.
- Certifies that the internship merits the hours
of academic credit.
- Handles problems.Meets with interns as a group
to discuss matters of mutual interest.
Internships may include compensation. We request
that companies pay an intern at least federal minimum wage and
that non-profit agencies compensate interns for expenses incurred,
such as driving to and from the work site and parking. The amount
of compensation should be negotiated between the intern and the
employer.
The student and site supervisor are required
to complete an evaluation of the internship
experience.
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