Credits: 6 Prerequisites: Junior or Senior Status; Open only to Major; 75 or More Overall Credits; Five (5) Courses in Major; One (1) Foundation Course in Major; 04:567:200: Writing For Media; 2.75 Major GPA; 2.5 Overall GPA; Permission of Instructor Corequisites: None

Supervised field experience at professional media outlets.

Note: Students will be allowed to take both the 3 credit internship and the 6 credit internship, but are not allowed to take both of them in the same semester.  Also note that students are limited to a maximum of 9 out-of-classroom credits in the major; the courses that fall under this heading are: Internship, Practicum, and Independent Study.

Learning Objectives

Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

  • Integrate skills learned in the classroom and adapt them to a professional media environment.
  • Share information about tasks assigned to them by on-site mentors.
  • Describe and relate the experience to their educational and career goals.