JOUR 4800 - Professional Internship

1–3 hours

Practical experience through employment under the supervision of department chair and professional at the work site. Student must submit bi-weekly reports, work samples and evaluation report at the end of internship; professional supervisor must submit mid-term and final evaluations. Internship and total work and credit hours to be completed must be arranged in advance of enrollment by application to the school. For each hour of credit, student must work a minimum of 100 hours.

Prerequisite(s): Journalism major status; prior completion of at least one upper-level journalism skills course and consent of school.

May be repeated for credit; however, no more than 3 hours of total credit for JOUR 4800 and JOUR 4805 or JOUR 4810 may be applied to the journalism degree requirements.