Internships

Many students recall their internship as a defining college experience. The internship is an opportunity to "put it all together" and apply years of classroom learning to a real world experience. The challenges and successes enjoyed through the internship course often provide a sharp focus for a student's plans following graduation.

Plymouth State students should consider an internship for the following reasons: to develop new skills and learn more about their field, clarify their occupational preference, grow personally and professionally, acquire valuable networking contacts in the field, add “real world” experience to their resume, gain letters of recommendation from their internship supervisors and increase employment opportunities following graduation.

The Bagley Center partners with the departments of Business, Education, English Writing, Geography, Graphic Design,Music, Theatre, and Dance, and the Women’s Studies Council to provide credit bearing experiential courses for their students. Students in these disciplines must come to our Center for information regarding an internship. Prior to the enrollment deadline for these internship courses, you must meet all departmental requirements and procedures and have completed an intake interview at the Bagley Center.

If you are a Graphic Design major then you would need to see your academic department coordinator within your discipline. For all other disciplines listed above, please print out and complete the following documents:

Conditions and Responsibilities( 32 Kb)

Self -Assessment Form( 32 Kb)

You must bring these signed forms with you to the intake appointment. If you do not have the form with you when you arrive, you will not be allowed to meet for your initial intake appointment.

Registration Deadlines: Prerequisites must be met and permission of the Bagley Center Instructor is required. The deadline is stated in the Schedule of Classes. Deadline is at the end of initial registration period. Some majors have an earlier deadline to allow time for students to meet with the discipline advisor and to file an Intent to Intern. Be sure you are within the deadline for your internship discipline.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: The Bagley Center develops the internship sites for the students, previsits the site to set up the internship structure and academic goals, and then prepares the student to interview at the site. We assign the internship to the student. The Bagley Center has a history of developing internships not only in the local and regional area but sites all over the US --and students have completed their internships abroad as well. Distant placement fees will apply for sites outside your geographic area.

Returning to campus, students are required to present their internship course experience to their department faculty, fellow students and other interested parties. Students describe their internship setting, the nature of their assignment and lessons learned on the job. This presentation gives the intern an opportunity to explain how they applied their education here at Plymouth and what they feel remains to be accomplished before they graduate.

Frequently Asked Questions about Internships