Summer Academic Credit Internships

INSTITUTIONAL REVIEW BOARD: If your academic internship will involve research activities with human subjects, be sure to see the Institutional Review Board’s website for steps to have your research project reviewed well in advance of the start date of your internship.

Are structured, supervised, educational experiences that encourage you - the student - to apply classroom theory into real world situations.

An Academic Internship Allows You to:

• Put your liberal arts education to work
• Apply and acquire knowledge through direct experience
• Gain insight into potential career opportunities
• Work in a professional environment
• Build your resume
• Develop highly marketable skills
• Receive academic notation on your transcript

1. Come to the Center for Experiential Learning (Modular complex in Rand lot) to learn about internship opportunities and for assistance in preparing a resume, cover letter, and the interview process.


2. Secure an internship.


3. Designate a faculty supervisor.


4. View and print the Summer Learning & Agreement & Plan
   
   
5. Begin filling out the learning plan. Finish the form with your faculty supervisor and if possible your site supervisor.


6. You, your faculty supervisor, and your site supervisor need to sign on the required signatures section on page 4. The department chair's signature is required only if you want the internship to count toward your major or concentration.


7. Complete the job description - please note that it does not need to be an official job description but can be a narrative summary or a bulleted item list of what responsibilities are required in the internship.


8. Carefully read and sign the student release form


9. If the internship is an international internship, make an appointment with Kathy Tuma in International and Off-Campus Studies Office to receive information about traveling abroad, the required international waiver, and obtain her signature on the internship form.


10. After you have completed the paperwork, and the form has all the required signatures, call x3268 to make an appointment with the internship coordinator to obtain signature and finalize the process. The CEL is the last to sign the form. This cannot be done until all the paperwork is complete and the form has all other required signatures.


11. CEL will keep the original Academic Internship Learning Agreement and Plan. A copy of the entire document will be made for the student, faculty supervisor and site supervisor. A copy will also be made for the Registrar's Office. The student must take this paperwork to the Registrar's Office to finalize registration.


12. THE DEADLINE TO REGISTER FOR A SUMMER ACADEMIC INTERNSHIP IS JUNE 1ST. Please process the paperwork before you leave campus for the summer.

• REGISTRATION DEADLINE FOR SUMMER ACADEMIC INTERNSHIPS IS JUNE 1ST. REGISTRATION IS MANDATORY TO RECEIVE CREDIT.
• Summer term Academic Internships require completion of the Registration for St. Olaf Summer School color-coded form, which can be picked up by the student at the Registrar's Office. This form, accompanied by a $50.00 non-refundable fee payable to the Registrar's Office, must be turned in along with a completed copy of page 1 and 2 of the Summer Academic Internship Learning Agreement & Plan in order for students to be officially registered.
• Students will be billed summer tuition rates for either .5 or 1.0 credit bearing internship - the $50.00 non-refundable fee will be applied to the student's summer tuition bill.

• On-site work plus academic work must total a minimum of 160 hours (120 of which must be on site) for a 1.0 credit internship


• On-site work plus academic work must total a minimum of 100 hours (80 of which must be on site) for a .5 credit internship
  
• Academic Credit can not be given retroactively


• Paperwork is required for an academic internship, see detail 4 to the left.


• Completion of integrated project or closing activity will be decided upon by student and faculty supervisor


• P/N grading for 1.0 and .5 credit academic internships


• Level II (294) or Level III (394) course does not fulfill general education graduation requirements


• Notation as academic internship will be on official transcript

For more information, please see the registrar's website.