Internships

Internships are academic experiences designed to give students practical work exposure in fields closely related to their majors. Interns work either in businesses or in agencies and are supervised by external personnel and designated faculty. Internships carry academic credit and are developed and administered by academic departments under the following institutional policy (academic departments may establish additional requirements for internships).

1. Normally students may earn no more than a total of nine credit hours for internships while enrolled at Lander. With the majority consent of the academic department, a student may earn a total of twelve credit hours from internships while enrolled at Lander. Credit for individual internships may vary but may not exceed a total of twelve credit hours for any single student.

2. A student must have a cumulative grade point average of at least 2.000 (academic departments may require higher cumulative grade point averages).

3. Academic departments may require course prerequisites for an internship.

4. A student must have earned a minimum of 45 credit hours in order to register for and undertake an internship (academic departments may require a higher minimum of credit hours).

5. Interns will normally work 96-120 hours (per three credit hour course) at their placement, the exact number of hours to be determined by the respective academic department.