Professional Practice Credit Courses

Professional Practice courses are university-wide courses that provide students with an opportunity to earn academic credit while gaining professionally supervised, paid, or unpaid work experience in business, industry, government, or other agencies and organizations. The work experience must be career and/or academically related and may take place at local, regional, national, or international sites. Professional Practice is a component of the Career Center. Our assistant director for Professional Practice works with Professional Practice Coordinators in the academic departments and is available to acquaint you with details pertaining to your participation in the program and help you research internship/cooperative education opportunities.

Professional Practice Options

Professional Practice courses include two options, Internships and Cooperative Education Internships and offer the following:

Frequently a capstone, one-time work experience
Career/academically related
Credit generating
Professionally supervised

Cooperative Education

Either alternating or parallel periods of classroom study and on-the-job work experience
Career/academically related
Credit generating
Professionally supervised
Qualified undergraduate and graduate students may participate in either of the two options.