College of Humanities Internship Program

Internship Workshop

• Explore your interests
• Connect with your network
• Learn about CSUN career resources
• Find organizations hiring student interns
• Pick up tips for resumes, cover letter and interviews
• Earn course credit for your internship experience

Dates

3/11 from 1:30 to 3:30
4/16 from 1:30 to 3:30
5/15 from 11:00 to 1:00

Located in Jerome Richfield 319

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Thank you for considering our students for an internship! Our goal is to create a valuable experience for everyone involved. We hope this information will help you decide if our program will work for your organization. Please read through our list of internship requirements and FAQs. Questions? Email the College of Humanities Internship Coordinator at kimberly.wells@csun.edu.

 

Overview

Internships are in a wide range of professional fields and can take place at corporations, nonprofits, in the public sector, or on campus. Internships can be paid or unpaid, remote, on-site, or hybrid. The students in our internship program are usually majoring or minoring within the College of Humanities, but we attract students from other disciplines. Students begin by applying for internships. When they secure a position that aligns with CSUN’s policies, they enroll in a credit-bearing course for the semester during which they work at an internship host site.

 

Internship Requirements

All Internships Must:

• Be a professional role with defined learning goals laid out in the Learning Agreement
• Be done concurrently with the student’s enrollment in the internship class – which runs according to the CSUN Academic Calendar
• Be a minimum of 100 hours for the semester
• Be a maximum of 8 hours in a day
• Be a host site with a fully-functional website
• Have a designated internship supervisor from the host site
• Communicate with the CSUN College of Humanities internship program as needed

On-site or Hybrid Internships Must:

• Be in California
• Have an established workspace that is not in a private home

Paid Internships Must:

• Be a maximum of 40 hours per week
• Be at least California minimum wage on an hourly basis (stipends do not meet this criteria)
• Provide pay stubs for students to submit as proof of pay

 

Unpaid Internships Must:

• Be a maximum of 20 hours per week
• Be for public sector or non-profit charitable organizations where the intern does not have an expectation of compensation
• Be for a for-profit employer in which the primary benefit of the internship is for the student as governed by The Fair Labor Standards Act Fact Sheet #71
• Be at a host site that has an active Community Partnership Agreement with CSUN

All Internships Can't:

• Consist of mostly menial tasks
• Be the student’s own business or a business owned by the student’s immediate family
• Be a start-up business under 1 year
• Be a student teaching or TA position
• Be clinical hours

 

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the role of the hosting organization? Internship host sites agree to supervise the students, establish mutually agreeable learning objectives, set a schedule, provide support and education as well as communication with the internship coordinator for the College of Humanities at CSUN. The intern’s supervisor must regularly account for the student’s hours in a signed log and complete a brief evaluation of the student’s performance.

 

What sort of help can I expect from the CSUN College of Humanities Internship Program when working with student interns? The internship program coordinator works with host sites to understand how to create an internship experience that aligns with CSUN’s policies and explain available opportunities to recruit students. During the semester, the internship coordinator maintains communication with the students, and periodically contacts the host site supervisors. If there is a concern with a student intern, the host site supervisor should immediately reach out to the internship coordinator.

Can an organization host new interns every semester? The most successful partnerships host new students every semester, and while we can help to facilitate those connections, we cannot guarantee from one semester to the next whether students will apply.

 

How can I recruit students to intern for my organization? Email your internship job posting to the internship coordinator for the College of Humanities so it can be shared directly with our incoming class of student interns. Ideally, students are hired prior to the semester for which they are interning. Employers can also share internship opportunities with the CSUN Career Center, which offers live events, and create an account on Handshake for CSUN students.

 

The internship job posting should be saved as a PDF and include the following information:

• Name of the hiring organization and what the organization does
• Title of the internship and the type of work that will be done
• Requirements and qualifications sought in candidates
• Rate of pay and/or if course credit is required
• Duration of internship with starting date and weekly schedule expectations
• Modality of work (in person, hybrid, remote)
• How to apply – include applicable links and contact information