Internships: Academic
Policy - In order to earn course credit, internships must:
- Include an academic course of instruction as a component
- Be offered under the auspices of an academic unit in Trinity College
- Be sponsored by a departmental/program faculty member
- Be approved by the director of undergraduate studies.
Such internships typically draw upon work experience as a way to investigate a research problem from one or more intellectual/disciplinary perspectives. They thus have an experiential component and a formal intellectual component leading to submission of a substantive research paper for evaluation.
Academic internships are of two types:
- those that are required for an existing major and/or are required in programs designed to meet state teaching certification standards;
- all other academic internships, which are considered to be electives. Only one course credit from these elective academic internships may count toward the thirty-four (34) course credits required for graduation.
Further information about procedural requirements may be obtained from your academic dean.
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