Credit internships are faculty-supervised work situations to which academic arrangements have been added. Usually these are off-campus, but some on-campus work may be appropriate for a credit internship.

Internship opportunities are available to students who have completed their first year and who wish to explore further an academic area, gain work experience in a field of their choice, or explore a possible career. Internships may be full- or part-time, off-campus or on-campus. Credit internships may be paid or unpaid if they are off-campus. On-campus credit internships may not be paid. A career total of up to 12 credits (usually S/Cr/NC) may be obtained with the concurrence of a sponsoring faculty member who will require additional academic work to augment the internship. Credit arrangements for internships must be made in the term preceding that in which the internship is undertaken, and the Office of the Associate Dean of Students must be notified in writing of plans to leave campus. A fee is charged for credit internships during summer or winter break or when the student is not paying the comprehensive fee. It will be added to the student's account by the Business Office when it is notified by the Dean of Students office that the off-campus credit internship has been approved by the Academic Standing Committee (ASC). (See Tuition Charges-Special Fees.) Students qualifying for financial assistance may receive help under certain conditions through the Director of Student Financial Services.

On-campus internships shall normally carry either stipends or credits, but not both. Interested students should consult the internship databases on the Career Center's Web site www.carleton.edu/campus/career and discuss plans for the programs with a staff member in the Career Center. Deadlines for internships follow.

Registration:

Students should meet with the internship coordinator in the Career Center to secure the three forms (Approval for Off-Campus Credit Internship, Internship Learning Goals and Evaluation, and Credit Internship Study Agreement), which must be signed and submitted to the Academic Standing Committee by the Friday preceding registration for the upcoming term. For break internships, the deadline is the Friday preceding registration for the upcoming term (i.e., winter for winter break and fall for summer break).

Drop:

A credit internship during an academic term or summer may be dropped only within the first four weeks of the term or summer during which the internship is undertaken. A winter break internship may be dropped only within the first two weeks after winter break begins. Should termination of an internship appear necessary, the intern must notify in writing the Office of the Associate Dean of Students, who will then notify the faculty supervisor, academic adviser, Business Office, registrar, and the Career Center. After four weeks, the usual procedure for petitioning the ASC applies. As a professional courtesy, it is appropriate for a student to give the employer two weeks written notice of a decision to drop the internship.

Grading:

Work (academic as well as field) in connection with an off-campus internship shall be completed and submitted no later than the first day of the subsequent academic term, and grades shall be submitted by the end of the third week, unless the faculty supervisor, for reasons intrinsic to the given internship, requests an "EXT" (extension granted). Grades for on-campus internships are due at the normal grading deadline for regular courses.