Student Internship Information
Once you have made the decision to pursue an internship, follow these steps:
- Prepare a résumé for yourself. Be sure to discuss your education, major, relevant classes, work experience, etc. Career Services offers assistance and resume writing tips.
- Think about what interests and excites you in an internship or job.
- Think about what sort of experience or organization you would like to add to your résumé by doing an internship.
- Find an internship of interest to you on the Postings page or through your own research of government, non-profit, or for-profit companies.
- Once you find an internship, apply for it using your résumé and whatever materials they request.
- In the internship interview, whether by phone or in person, talk about your interests and skills. Ask about the sorts of projects you will be working on.
- Once you and the Internship Host agree on the internship, you complete the Internship Agreement Form together.
Some key points about internships:- You are permitted to be paid for an internship or aspects of it, which could be hourly wage, stipend, reimbursements, room and board, and/or transportation. These are arrangements made between you and your Internship Host, independent of ENVS and the University.
- The usual internship earns you 3 academic credits for 120 hours of work.
- Internships can range from 1 to 3 credit hours.
- You must work 40 hours for each credit hour.
- In an internship, you must be given one or more projects that you can work on with a lot or a little supervision, for which you have some responsibility, and that have some sort of outcome. You cannot simply be an additional office or lab help.
- Register for Internship Credit (through the ENVS Office). The internship will show on your schedule as a class.
- There are on-campus requirements for you in order to receive academic credit:
- The Internship class (ENVS 3930) will meet a few times during the semester; you will be notified when.
- At the end of the internship, you will write a paper and complete an Internship Evaluation Form, as well as do a short presentation to the class about your internship.
- Your Internship Host must do an evaluation of you (which ENVS sends to the Internship Host).
- You will have one final meeting with the faculty sponsor Warren Cook (warren.cook@colorado.edu).