Internships
Clinicals are a series of supervised interactions with patients in local healthcare facilities. Clinicals provide students with experience to prepare them for real healthcare situations on real patients.
An internship is an opportunity provided by an organization to give career/field work related experience to students related to their major. Students may learn beneficial concepts and keys such as; cooperative education, service-learning, and field experiences, which ultimately provide a first step into a career.
A student may or may not be compensated financially for this experience. Students may spend several hours a week volunteering in an agency, supporting activities, shadowing a professional in the work field, and or observing people in their natural environments.
When participating in an on-campus internships you may gain real-world experience while receiving academic credit while on-campus. Some on-campus internship opportunities are available through the business school. Others are often posted on your college’s web-page or through professors. Opportunities include business projects, financial services projects, and social impact projects. If you are interested in an on-campus internship and your college doesn’t directly provide one, visit the Ballard Center at https://marriott.byu.edu/ballard/students/jobs-internships/ for possible on-campus internships.
You may participate in internships internationally! For additional instructions, visit https://experience.byu.edu/international-internships for more information about the procedure/requirements.
The Kennedy Center also offers International Study Programs (ISP). These programs are designed to meet the needs of departments and students including study abroad, field studies, internship programs, and individual internships. Visit their website https://kennedy.byu.edu/isp/ if you want to learn more.
A relative of the internship, this form of experiential learning usually is a course or student exercise involving practical experience in a work setting (whether paid or unpaid) as well as theoretical study, including supervised experience as part of professional pre-service education. This could be something like coursework for the major or observing in the field. Practicum experiences are generally required in teaching/professional social science disciplines. Opportunities for practicums are only available for upper classmen in specific majors. To get started, students should enroll in a practicum course and/or speak with their academic advisor.
Student teaching provides practical “real life” opportunities that are the same as teaching. Students will develop skills and adopt the values that shape their teaching. Student teaching is for students pursing a degree in education. Typically, students are required to have been accepted to the major and have completed upper division coursework. They are required to complete student teaching before graduating. Students should talk to their academic advisor because majors have differing requirements.