Academic Internships

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.