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Academic Internships

• An academic internship formally integrates the student鈥檚 academic study with handson, professional experience in a cooperating organization related to the student鈥檚 career interests.
• Through hands-on work experience, students explore the profession to determine if their chosen career path is right for them without having to make a full commitment.
• Academic internships assist students in developing new skills and honing ones they already have for post-graduation endeavors. In other words, internships help students get prepared for their desired career field.
• An academic internship does not have to be related to the community, non-profit, or 鈥渃ivic responsibility鈥�. Rather, it can be strictly related to a business or governmental enterprise.
• Students may receive financial compensation.
• Firsthand experience at the academic internship placement itself embodies the vast majority of the student鈥檚 time, and may include a small component of class assignments, such as a reflective journal. (Approximately 45 hours for each credit earned).
• Usually offered to upper division students thru a designated internship course and occasionally through a field placement course or as an independent study.
• Academic departments may offer in variable units, depending on the total number of hours invested in the internship.
• May be offered as credit/no credit or with a traditional letter grade, depending on department.
• Guidelines for internships are found in .
• Students are required to complete placement documents and a safety and workplace orientation through the to ensure liability coverage with the University.
• Existing internships courses automatically have the internship attribute.

Contact Academic Internships

Phone: 760-750-7005
Email: internships@csusm.edu  

Service Learning

• Service learning is a teaching method that promotes student learning through active participation in meaningful and planned service experiences based on community needs that are substantively related to course content.
• Through reflective activities, students enhance their understanding of course content, general knowledge, sense of civic responsibility, self-awareness and commitment to the community.
• Service Learning prepares students to better understand course content via learning by doing or 鈥渆xperiential learning.鈥�
• Student learning provides students opportunities to participate in organized service activities that meet community needs while linking the community service experience to course content.
• Students do not receive financial compensation.
• Firsthand experience at the organization includes a small, but important component of the course assignments, in particular reflections about the service engagement. (Approximately 20-30 hours over the course of the semester).
• From first year undergraduates to graduate students, service learning can be integrated into most courses.
• Units are tied to the service learning course, usually 3 units.
• Graded as a component of the course.
• Guidelines for Service Learning are found in the CSU system-wide document, .
• Students are required to complete placement documents and a safety and workplace orientation through the to ensure liability coverage with the University.
• Instructors are required to request that their AC add the service learning attribute each semester to indicate that this course includes service learning.

Contact Service Learning

Phone: 760-750-4055
Email: servicelearning@csusm.edu