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Why do an internship?
An internship is an academic experience for credit in a work setting supervised jointly by Northwestern College and an associated employer. It is a process of education that integrates a student’s classroom learning with productive work experience in businesses and organizations.
An internship experience is designed to:
- Increase students’ understanding through the application of theories and practices learned in the classroom;
- Help students better understand their discipline by exposing them to new topics and processes in a non-classroom setting;
- Give students experience in an employee/employer relationship and thus prepare them for a more effective transition into a career; and
- Provide both students and employers with an opportunity to see the benefits of a liberal arts education.
*Each internship experience earns either 6 or 8 credits, with 2 or 4 credits applying toward a student’s major—at the discretion of the major academic department. Six credits requires 320 internship hours, while 8 requires 420 hours.
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