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1. Determine if you are qualified:
- B.A. students must have Junior standing (60 credit hours).
- M.A. students must have completed 6 credit hours at the M.A. level.
- All students must have an overall FGCU GPA of 3.0.
2. Create an account on Eagle Career Linkand complete your profile:
- Your profile will be used to match you with internship opportunities.
- You will use Eagle Career Link both to apply for internship credit
- and to track and assess your experience.
3. Find an internship opportunity:
- Use the suggestions from Eagle Career Link.
- Contact PAGES, an undergraduate co-curricular program focused on career development
for B.A. students in Humanities and Social Science majors.
- Consider on-campus opportunities such as doing archival work at the library, editing
student publications (Eagle News and Aquila), tutoring at the Writing Center, and
doing research with a faculty member.
- Note: If you find an opportunity not listed in Eagle Career Link, contact the Office
of Internships and Co-operative Programs so that the staff can help to establish an
internship with that organization.
4. Register your intended internship experience in Eagle Career Link by completing
a form that will ask you to:
- Provide information about the company name, location, and supervisor.
- Indicate the planned number of hours to be completed and type, if any, of compensation
(e.g. 3 credit hours = 135 hours of work).
- Articulate learning outcomes, how they will be achieved, and forms of assessment.
5. Enroll in an internship course for the desired semester (required for academic
credit):
- B.A. students: ENG 4940 English Internship
- M.A. students: ENG 6940 English Masters Internship
- All students need instructor approval to enroll in an internship course.
- During the first week of the semester, check the course Canvas-site both to complete
the attendance verification activity and to learn about the documentation required
to receive internship credit.
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Employers:
Thank you for thinking of FGCU!
Please submit the Employer Interest Form to the Office of Internships and Co-operative Programs.
Be sure to indicate your desire to employ an English major!
How to register for an academic internship:
- Get approval from the Internship Coordinator, Carol Bledsoe.
- Enroll in the course before the last day to register for classes.
- Sign-in to Canvas to find a schedule of the tasks required for an academic internship.
Contacts:
Kim Jackson
Language & Literature Chair
kjackson@fgcu.edu
Fiona Tolhurst
M.A. Program Coordinator
ftolhurst@fgcu.edu
Mary Crone-Romanovski
B.A. Program Coordinator
mromanovski@fgcu.edu
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