Experience-Based Education

Experience-Based Education offers summer internships for academic credit.  Students can intern while they are home for the summer or spend the summer in a major metropolitan area.  Summer internships are billed by the credit hour with payment typically due the first week in July (Current tuition rates can be found here).  If you plan to earn credit for a summer internship, you should start the process in the spring semester by learning about the courses offered and beginning your internship search.  Some competitive summer internships and those that offer pay have application deadlines as early as the fall, so an early start is highly recommended. Students can choose to earn credit through GST 303 - Career Awareness or through a 398/498 level internship.  A detailed description of both courses can be found here.

The deadline to register for internship credit is June 30!

Carefully review our summer course offerings below and follow the instructions to register for the credit you would like to earn:

GST 303 - Career Awareness

An online summer internship course offered for 2-6 credits.  Experience-Based Education registers you and gives you access to the Angel course.  The learning agreement is available in the Angel course and students complete career related lessons and academic assignments throughout the course of their internship.  Students in GST 303 for the summer will not need a faculty sponsor, they will be sponsored by the instructor of GST 303. 

Click Here to Register for GST 303 - Students will be registered and given access to the GST 303 Angel Course beginning June 1 (tuition payment instructions will emailed to you).

Internships 398/498

Choose GST or Departmental credit. Students selecting this type of credit must follow the directions below by confirming their internship and completing a learning agreement with a faculty sponsor within their major.  You can earn 1-9 credits, students are registered by Experience-Based Education upon receipt of your completed learning agreement. You will then be emailed instructions for making your tuition payment. Learning agreements are due in EBE by June 30. 

Step One:   Confirm your internship (LakerApps sign in required)

Step Two:  Print your learning agreement with instructions

Important Final Grading Information for Summer Internships:

The deadline for our office to submit final grades for summer internships is in mid-August.  Some students have not yet completed their internships by this initial deadline.  If your internship extends beyond the summer grading deadline or you have not submitted copies of your academic assignments and time sheets to our office by mid-August, you will be assigned a TEMPORARY Incomplete as your final grade.  Once you have completed your internship or submitted your required assignments your Incomplete will be erased and replaced with your actual final grade.  A temporary incomplete disappears completely from your transcript once you fulfill your internship requirements.