The answer depends on your department.
First things first: any student can do an internship without earning academic credit for the experience, so long as they meet the legal requirements to work. For students wishing to earn academic credit for an internship, you need to see if your department allows it within your curriculum. Below is a list of all departments at UMass Amherst and their policies towards obtaining academic credit towards the completion of your degree.
Students: Please check with an academic advisor in your department to see if a credited internship will work for your specific academic requirements. Most departments require you to have completed at least 45 credits and have a minimum of a 2.0 GPA to do an internship for credit.
International Students: In order to engage in a paid internship (for F-1 and J-1 visa students) or an unpaid internship (for J-1 visa students), you must obtain internship credit during the semester(s) in which you are working. Check with the Office of Global Affairs (formerly the International Programs Office) to see what you need to do to get started.
Faculty/Staff: If you would like to suggest an edit to your department's description, contact @email.
Click Your School/College Below:
BDIC: Bachelor's Degree with Individual Concentration
CICS: Manning College of Information and Computer Sciences
CNS: College of Natural Sciences
CoE: College of Engineering
EDU: College of Education
HFA: College of Humanities and Fine Arts
ISOM: Isenberg School of Management
NUR: Elaine Marieb College of Nursing
SBS: College of Social and Behavioral Science
SPHHS: School of Public Health and Health Sciences
Bachelor's Degree with Individual Concentration (BDIC)
- Internships for Credit Available?: For Undergraduate Students
- Course(s): BDIC 398A, BDIC 498A
- Contact: Rebecca Schwartz | rschwartz@bdic.umass.edu
- Notes: BDIC allows 6 credits of internship, which equals 2 BDIC courses, to satisfy upper level course requirements in the BDIC degree. BDIC also accepts internship credits from other departments and UMASS 298.
Manning College of Information and Computer Sciences
- Internships for Credit Available?: For Undergraduate Students and International Graduate Students
- Course(s):
- Domestic Undergraduate: COMPSCI 398A
- International Undergraduate: CICS 398T
- International Graduate: CICS 598T
- Contact:
- Notes: Most internships completed by CICS Computer Science students are paid, uncredited internships. A complete outline on how to navigate the internship process as a CICS student can be found on the CICS Guide to Internships.
- Internships for Credit Available?: For Undergraduate Students
- Course(s): UMASS 298
- Contact: Michelle Trim | @email
- Notes: A complete outline on how to navigate the internship process as a CICS student can be found on the CICS Guide to Internships.
College of Natural Sciences
- Internships for Credit Available?: No
- Internships for Credit Available?: For Undergraduate Students
- Course(s): ANIMLSCI 298, ANIMLSCI 398, ANIMLSCI 398D, ANIMLSCI 398S, ANIMLSCI 398V, ANIMLSCI 498, ANIMLSCI 498S, ANIMLSCI 498V
- Contact: Janice Telfer | @email
- Notes: On a case by case basis, students can petition to have x98 internship credits replace major requirements for BS-ANIMLSCI and BS-PRE VET majors. The BS-VET TECH requires 12 credits of ANIMLSCI 498V internships.
- Internships for Credit Available?: For International Graduate Students for CPT only
- Course(s): MATH 696
- Contact: Markos Katsoulakis | @email
- Internships for Credit Available?: For Graduate Students
- Course(s): MICROBIO 698 (AMB Practicum)
- Contact: Jeffrey Kane | @email
- Notes: During the summer session, students will participate in an internship at a biotechnology or pharmaceutical company. Alternatively, students will stay on campus during the summer and complete their research project and participate in “Lab Modules”.
- Internships for Credit Available?: For Undergraduate Students (Associate)
- Course(s): STOCKSCH 198F, STOCKSCH 198G, STOCKSCH 198T, STOCKSCH 298, STOCKSCH 298A, STOCKSCH 298FS, STOCKSCH 298P, STOCKSCH 398, STOCKSCH 398A, STOCKSCH 398B, STOCKSCH 398T, STOCKSCH 498, STOCKSCH 498Y
- Contact: Kristina Bezanson | @email
- Internships for Credit Available?: For Undergraduate Students
- Course(s): ASTRON 498Y
- Contact: Todd Tripp (Chief Undergraduate Advisor) | @email
- Internships for Credit Available?: For Undergraduate Students Only
- Course(s): BIOCHEM 298, BIOCHEM 498Y
- Contact: Amy Springer | @email
- Notes: The Biochemistry & Molecular Biology department does not currently allow students to complete internship credit towards their major requirements.
- Internships for Credit Available?: For Undergraduate and Graduate Students
- Course(s):
- Undergraduate: BIOLOGY 398B/398E
- Graduate: BIOLOGY 698
- Contact: Bruce Byers | @email
- Notes: The Biology department allows up to 6 internship credits (BIOLOGY 398B) to count toward the major requirements, but no more than 6 total credits from internship, independent study, and TA combined.
- Internships for Credit Available?: For Undergraduate Students
- Course(s): BCT 398, BCT 498, BCT 498Y
- Contact: Alex Schreyer | @email
- Notes: BCT offers up to 15 credits for a practicum, which can be counted towards electives in the program.
- Internships for Credit Available?: For Undergraduate Students Only
- Course(s): CHEM 396/496
- Contact: Ruthanne Paradise | @email
- Notes: Internship credits do not currently satisfy major requirements in Chemistry.
- Internships for Credit Available?: At Advisor Discretion
- Contact: Steven Petsch | @email
- Notes: Specific internships need to be discussed with the Chief Undergraduate Advisor.
- Internships for Credit Available?: For Graduate Students
- Course(s): ECO 698, ECO 698S
- Contact: Lena Fletcher | @email
- Internships for Credit Available?: For Undergraduate Students
- Course(s):
- Undergraduate: ENVIRSCI 298, ENVIRSCI 389, ENVIRSCI 398S, ENVIRSCI 498
- Campus Sustainability Fellowship: ENVIRSCI 598S
- Contact: Deb Henson | @email
- Notes: Environmental Science students must complete two 2 “praxis” (hands-on) courses that provide practical experience and skills in an environmental field. Praxis requirements can be fulfilled by selected coursework, independent study research, and internship credits.
- Internships for Credit Available?: For Undergraduate and Graduate Students
- Course(s):
- Undergraduate: UMASS 298, FOOD-SCI 398E, FOOD-SCI 498Y
- Graduate: FOOD-SCI 696/796, FOOD-SCI 699 (Thesis/Dissertation)
- Contact: David Mcclements | @email
- Internships for Credit Available?: For Undergraduate and Graduate Students (for grad students, see note below)
- Course(s):
- Undergraduate: GEOGRAPH 298, GEOGRAPH 398R, GEOGRAPH 498, GEOGRAPH 498Y,
- Graduate: GEOGRAPH 698G (GIST Master's Program only)
- Contact: Toby Applegate | @email
- Notes: Students in the Globalization & International Studies Concentration must complete at least 6 of the credits for the degree in conjunction with an appropriate international academic experience involving a period of residence outside the United States, which can include an internship. Consult with the Geography Chief Undergraduate Advisor.
- Internships for Credit Available?: No
- Internships for Credit Available?: For Graduate Students
- Course(s): GEO-SCI 698/798
- Contact: David Boutt | @email
- Internships for Credit Available?: No
- Internships for Credit Available?: For Undergraduate Students (Associate)
- Course(s): STOCKSCH 198F, STOCKSCH 198G, STOCKSCH 198T, STOCKSCH 298, STOCKSCH 298A, STOCKSCH 298FS, STOCKSCH 298P, STOCKSCH 398, STOCKSCH 398A, STOCKSCH 398B, STOCKSCH 398T, STOCKSCH 498, STOCKSCH 498Y
- Contact: Michael Davidsohn | @email
- Internships for Credit Available?: For Undergraduate Students and International Graduate Students for CPT
- Course(s):
- Undergraduate: MATH 398 (for departmental credit), MATH 498Y (for credits towards graduation)
- Graduate: MATH 696/796, MATH 699/899 (Dissertation/Thesis)
- Contact: Sohrab Shahshahani | @email
- Notes: An internship in the department can fulfill an upper-level math elective in actuarial, applied math, pure math, or stats concentrations.
- Internships for Credit Available?: For Undergraduate Students and International Graduate Students for CPT
- Course(s):
- Undergraduate: MICROBIO 398, MICROBIO 398A, MICROBIO 398PF
- Graduate: MICROBIO 698 (for CPT)
- Contact:
- Notes: 3 credits of Independent Study (396) or Practicum (398) may be applied to the 35 Microbiology credit requirement.
- Internships for Credit Available?: For Graduate Students
- Course(s): MOLCLBIO 698
- Contact: Meg Stratton (mstratton@umass.edu)
- Internships for Credit Available?: For Undergraduate Students (Concentration Dependent)
- Course(s): NRC 198, NRC 198Y (Stockbridge only), NRC 298, NRC 398, NRC 498
- Contact: Lena Fletcher | @email
- Notes: NRC General Concentration (Environmental Conservation) can use internship/practicum credit to fill the 9 "any level" electives and 9 "upper-level" electives. All other concentrations may have internships count towards electives on an exception basis.
- Internships for Credit Available?: For Graduate Students
- Course(s): NEUROS&B 699, NEUROS&B 899 (Dissertation/Thesis)
- Contact: Heather Richardson | @email
- Internships for Credit Available?: No
- Internships for Credit Available?: For Undergraduate and Graduate Students
- Course(s):
- Undergraduate: PHYSICS 198, 298, 398,498, 498Y
- Graduate: PHYSICS 699/PHYSICS 899 (Thesis/Dissertation)
- Contact:
- Undergraduate: Donald Candela | candela@physics.umass.ed
- Graduate: Lori Goldner | @email
- Notes: Undergraduate students may perform research for internship/practicum credit.
- Internships for Credit Available?: For International Graduate Students for CPT Only
- Course(s): PLANTBIO 899 (Dissertation/Thesis)
- Internships for Credit Available?: For Graduate Students
- Course(s): PLANTBIO 698
- Contact: Ana Caicedo | @email
- Internships for Credit Available?: For International Graduates Seeking CPT only
- Course(s): POLYMER 796 (CPT), POLYMER 899 (Dissertation/Thesis)
- Contact: Greg Grason | @email
- Internships for Credit Available?: For Undergraduate and Graduate Students
- Course(s):
- Undergraduate: PSYCH 398DD, PSYCH 398E (Spring), PSYCH 398F (Fall)
- Graduate: PSYCH 698, PSYCH 798, PSYCH 898Y
- Contact:
- Note: See the Psychological & Brain Sciences Internships page for more information.
- Internships for Credit Available?: For International Graduate Students for CPT
- Course(s): STATISTC 696, 796
- Contact: Kaitlyn O’Konis | @email
- Internships for Credit Available?: For Graduate Students
- Course(s): ENVIRSCI 598S
- Contact: Britt Crow-Miller | @email
- Notes: Campus Sustainability Fellowship; primarily for students enrolled in the Sustainability Science Masters degree program
- Internships for Credit Available?: For Undergraduate and Graduate Students
- Course(s):
- Undergraduate: STOCKSCH 198F, STOCKSCH 198G, STOCKSCH 298, STOCKSCH 298A, STOCKSCH 298FS, STOCKSCH 298P, STOCKSCH 398, STOCKSCH 398A, STOCKSCH 398B, STOCKSCH 498, STOCKSCH 498Y
- Graduate: STOCKSCH 598, STOCKSCH 698
- Contact: Sarah Berquist | @email
- Internships for Credit Available?: For Undergraduate, Graduate, and Associates Students
- Course(s):
- Undergraduate: STOCKSCH 198F, STOCKSCH 198G, STOCKSCH 298, STOCKSCH 298A, STOCKSCH 298FS, STOCKSCH 298P, STOCKSCH 398, STOCKSCH 398A, STOCKSCH 398B, STOCKSCH 498, STOCKSCH 498Y
- Graduate: STOCKSCH 598, STOCKSCH 698
- Contact: Elsa Petit | @email
- Internships for Credit Available?: For Undergraduate and Graduate Students
- Course(s):
- Undergraduate: STOCKSCH 198T, STOCKSCH 398T, STOCKSCH 498, STOCKSCH 498Y
- Graduate: STOCKSCH 598, STOCKSCH 698
- Contact: Michelle DaCosta | @email
College of Engineering
Note: while engineering students can do internships for credit, most will graduate with more credits than they need. As a result, internships are typically either completed without obtaining academic credit during the summer or by international students seeking CPT (for paid internships) or AT (for paid or internships). Domestic students seeking to earn internship credit can register for UMASS 298/398/498.
- International Undergraduate Students: Contact Todd Butynski for more information.
- International Graduate Students: Contact Christina Mata for more information.
- Internships for Credit Available?: For International Undergraduate Students and International Graduate Students (see note for domestic students)
- Course(s):
- International Undergraduate: BMED-ENG-296/396
- International Graduate: BMED-ENG 696
- Contact:
- Notes: International students completing a paid internship for credit may use Biomedical Engineering course listings. Domestic students seeking internship credits should use UMASS 298/398/498.
Note: while engineering students can do internships for credit, most will graduate with more credits than they need. As a result, internships are typically either completed without obtaining academic credit during the summer or by international students seeking CPT (for paid internships) or AT (for paid or internships). Domestic students seeking to earn internship credit can register for UMASS 298/398/498.
- International Undergraduate Students: Contact Todd Butynski for more information.
- International Graduate Students: Contact Christina Mata for more information.
- Internships for Credit Available?: For International Undergraduate Students and International Graduate Students (see note for domestic students)
- Course(s):
- International Undergraduate: CHEM-ENG 396
- International Graduate: CHEM-ENG 796
- Contact:
- Notes: International students completing a paid internship for credit may use Chemical Engineering course listings. Domestic students seeking internship credits should use UMASS 298/398/498.
Note: while engineering students can do internships for credit, most will graduate with more credits than they need. As a result, internships are typically either completed without obtaining academic credit during the summer or by international students seeking CPT (for paid internships) or AT (for paid or internships). Domestic students seeking to earn internship credit can register for UMASS 298/398/498.
- International Undergraduate Students: Contact Todd Butynski for more information.
- International Graduate Students: Contact Christina Mata for more information.
- Internships for Credit Available?: For International Undergraduate Students and International Graduate Students (see note for domestic students)
- Course(s):
- International Undergraduate: CE-ENG 396
- International Graduate: CE-ENGIN 596/696
- Contact:
- Notes: International students completing a paid internship for credit may use Civil & Environmental Engineering course listings. Domestic students seeking internship credits should use UMASS 298/398/498.
Note: while engineering students can do internships for credit, most will graduate with more credits than they need. As a result, internships are typically either completed without obtaining academic credit during the summer or by international students seeking CPT (for paid internships) or AT (for paid or internships). Domestic students seeking to earn internship credit can register for UMASS 298/398/498.
- International Undergraduate Students: Contact Todd Butynski for more information.
- International Graduate Students: Contact Christina Mata for more information.
- Internships for Credit Available?: For International Undergraduate Students and International Graduate Students (see note for domestic students)
- Course(s):
- International Undergraduate: E&C-ENG 498Y
- International Graduate: E&C-ENG 398
- Contact:
- Notes: International students completing a paid internship for credit may use Electrical & Computer Engineering course listings. Domestic students seeking internship credits should use UMASS 298/398/498. Academic credit earned by International Graduate students will not fulfill program requirements.
- Internships for Credit Available?: For International Graduate Students
- Course(s): CE-ENGIN 596/696
- Contact: Caitlyn Butler | @email
- Notes: International students completing a paid internship for credit may use Civil & Environmental Engineering course listings.
Note: while engineering students can do internships for credit, most will graduate with more credits than they need. As a result, internships are typically either completed without obtaining academic credit during the summer or by international students seeking CPT (for paid internships) or AT (for paid or internships). Domestic students seeking to earn internship credit can register for UMASS 298/398/498.
- International Undergraduate Students: Contact Todd Butynski for more information.
- International Graduate Students: Contact Christina Mata for more information.
- Internships for Credit Available?: For International Graduate Students
- Course(s): M&I-ENG 696
- Contact: Ana Muriel | @email
- Notes: International students completing a paid internship for credit may use Mechanical & Industrial Engineering course listings.
Note: while engineering students can do internships for credit, most will graduate with more credits than they need. As a result, internships are typically either completed without obtaining academic credit during the summer or by international students seeking CPT (for paid internships) or AT (for paid or internships). Domestic students seeking to earn internship credit can register for UMASS 298/398/498.
- International Undergraduate Students: Contact Todd Butynski for more information.
- International Graduate Students: Contact Christina Mata for more information.
- Internships for Credit Available?: For International Graduate Students
- Course(s): MS-ENG 698
- Contact: Ashwin Ramasubramaniam | @email
- Notes: International students completing a paid internship for credit may use Materials Science & Engineering course listings.
Note: while engineering students can do internships for credit, most will graduate with more credits than they need. As a result, internships are typically either completed without obtaining academic credit during the summer or by international students seeking CPT (for paid internships) or AT (for paid or internships). Domestic students seeking to earn internship credit can register for UMASS 298/398/498.
- International Undergraduate Students: Contact Todd Butynski for more information.
- International Graduate Students: Contact Christina Mata for more information.
- Internships for Credit Available?: For International Undergraduate Students and International Graduate Students (see note for domestic students)
- Course(s):
- International Undergraduate: M&I-ENG 396/496
- International Graduate: M&I-ENG 696
- Contact:
- Notes: International students completing a paid internship for credit may use Mechanical & Industrial Engineering course listings. Domestic students seeking internship credits should use UMASS 298/398/498.
College of Education
- Internships for Credit Available?: Yes, as Practicum Experiences
- Course(s):
- EDUC 398
- EDUC 398C: P-CESC
- Contact: Michael Hanna | mhanna@umass.edu
- Internships for Credit Available?: Yes, as Practicum Experiences
- Graduate Course(s):
- EDUC 698: Practicum
- Contact: Michael Hanna | @email
College of Humanities & Fine Arts
- Internships for Credit Available?: For Undergraduate and Graduate Students
- Course(s):
- Undergraduate: ARCH 498/498A/498D/498E/498G
- Graduate: ARCH 698/698P
- Contact:
- Notes: For the BS Architecture degree, Architecture accepts independent studies (x96) and practica (x98) for required classes (except Gen Ed requirements).
- Internships for Credit Available?: For Undergraduate and Graduate Students
- Course(s):
- Undergraduate: ART 298/398/498/498Y
- Graduate: ART 696/796
- Contact: Jeffrey Kasper | @email
- Notes: Internship credits must be arts-related, sponsored by full-time department faculty, and approved by the Program Director. Art majors can take a maximum of 12 Independent Study and/or Practicum credits toward degree requirements as Studio Electives. Discipline requirements cannot be fulfilled by Independent Study or Practicum unless approved by the Undergraduate Program Director.
- Internships for Credit Available?: Usually No - See Notes
- Course(s):
- Undergraduate: CLASSICS 298/498/498Y, GREEK 498Y
- Graduate: LATIN-ED 500U
- Contact:
- Notes: Classics does not have an explicit policy regarding internships for credit. Students may petition the department to allow an experience to count toward one of the major requirements if it is determined the experience sufficiently complements the curriculum.
- Internships for Credit Available?: For Undergraduate Students Only
- Course(s): COMP-LIT 398/498Y
- Contact: Jessica Barr | @email
- Internships for Credit Available?: For Undergraduate Students
- Course(s): DANCE 398J (Summer Only), DANCE 498Y
- Contact: Thomas Vacanti | @email
- Notes: Undergrad students can earn 1-18 credits for internships with DANCE 389J during the Summer, or DANCE 498Y during the rest of the year.
- Internships for Credit Available?: For Undergraduate and Graduate Students
- Course(s):
- Undergraduate: CHINESE 498Y, JAPANESE 498Y
- Graduate: CHINESE 698/698Y, JAPANESE 698/698Y
- Contact:
- Chinese Undergraduate: Zhijun Wang | @email
- Chinese Graduate: Elena Suet-Ying Chiu | @email
- Japanese Undergraduate: Yuki Yoshimura | @email
- Japanese Graduate: Bruce Baird | baird.umass.edu
- Internships for Credit Available?: For Undergraduate and Graduate Students
- Course(s):
- Undergraduate: ENGLISH 298/398/498/498Y
- Graduate: ENGLISH 698
- Contact:
- Notes: Students can earn 200 or 300 elective credit with a 3+ credit internship if it is Letter-Graded ENGLISH 398 only.
- Internships for Credit Available?: For Undergraduate Students Only
- Course(s): FILM-ST 398
- Contact: Barbara Zecchi | @email
- Notes: Students can take 6 credits of internship as part of the 7 electives in Film Studies. More information available on the Film Studies Internship page.
- Internships for Credit Available?: For Undergraduate and Graduate Students (German only)
- Course(s):
- Undergraduate: GERMAN 398/498Y
- Graduate: GERMAN 698
- Contact:
- Notes: For the German Studies track, students may replace any course with an internship. STEM-German majors have the option to earn 1-8 credits in an internship towards their STEM-German major.
- Internships for Credit Available?: For Undergraduate and Graduate Students
- Course(s):
- Undergraduate: HISTORY 298/298Y/498Y
- Graduate: HISTORY 698/698A
- Contact:
- Undergraduate: Sarah Cornell | secornell@history.umass.ed
- Graduate: Joel Wolfe | @email
- Internships for Credit Available?: For Undergraduate Students
- Course(s):
- ARABIC 298/398
- HEBREW 298/398/498Y
- JUDAIC STUDIES 298/398/498Y
- MIDEAST 289/398/498Y
- Contact: David Mednicoff | @email
- Internships for Credit Available?: For Undergraduate and Graduate Students
- Course(s):
- Undergraduate: MUSIC 298/398/498
- Graduate: MUSIC 798B
- Contact:
- Notes: Undergrad students can earn 1-18 credits for internships MUSIC 298, MUSIC 398, and MUSIC 498.
- Internships for Credit Available?: No
- Internships for Credit Available?: For Undergraduate Students Only
- Course(s):
- SPANISH 398/498Y
- PORTUG 398/398B/498
- Contact: Patricia Gubitosi | @email
- Notes: Internship (x98) credits do not count towards program requirements or program electives. They only contribute to a student's credit count towards graduation.
Isenberg School of Management
Undergraduate Isenberg Majors:
Visit the Isenberg Internship & Co-Op Process page on iConnect for a complete guide to these processes.
In addition to the course options identified below, Isenberg undergraduates in all majors can earn internship credit as UMASS 298 and may count those credits towards the 120 credits required to graduate.
- Internships for Credit Available?: For Undergraduate Students and International Graduate Students
- Course(s):
- Undergraduate: ACCOUNTG 398/398V (VITA program), 498S (Semester in the Profession program)
- Graduate: SCH MGMT 696
- Contact:
Undergraduate Isenberg Majors:
Visit the Isenberg Internship & Co-Op Process page on iConnect for a complete guide to these processes.
In addition to the course options identified below, Isenberg undergraduates in all majors can earn internship credit as UMASS 298 and may count those credits towards the 120 credits required to graduate.
Undergraduate Isenberg Majors:
Visit the Isenberg Internship & Co-Op Process page on iConnect for a complete guide to these processes.
In addition to the course options identified below, Isenberg undergraduates in all majors can earn internship credit as UMASS 298 and may count those credits towards the 120 credits required to graduate.
- Internships for Credit Available?: For Undergraduate Students or International Graduate Students Seeking CPT
- Course(s):
- Undergraduate: FINANCE 498/498Y
- Graduate: SCH-MGMT 696 (CPT only)
- Contact:
- Notes: Undergraduate Finance majors can apply a maximum of 3 credits from a field experience to satisfy business/economics electives.
Undergraduate Isenberg Majors:
Visit the Isenberg Internship & Co-Op Process page on iConnect for a complete guide to these processes.
In addition to the course options identified below, Isenberg undergraduates in all majors can earn internship credit as UMASS 298 and may count those credits towards the 120 credits required to graduate.
- Internships for Credit Available?: For Undergraduate Students
- Course(s): HT-MGT 298W/298Y/HT-MGT 398/HT-MGT 498Y
- Contact: Jenafer Andren | @email
- Notes: An HTM internship course cannot take the place of a program requirement. Credits earned for the internship can only be applied towards the university’s credit requirement.
Undergraduate Isenberg Majors:
Visit the Isenberg Internship & Co-Op Process page on iConnect for a complete guide to these processes.
In addition to the course options identified below, Isenberg undergraduates in all majors can earn internship credit as UMASS 298 and may count those credits towards the 120 credits required to graduate.
- Internships for Credit Available?: For Undergraduates Students and International Graduate Students
- Course(s):
- Undergraduate: MANAGMNT 398/498Y
- Graduate: SCH-MGMT 696
- Contact:
- Notes: The Management Department has allowed up to three credits of internship to apply to the major (MANAGMNT 398) and it is recorded as an elective. Management majors can apply a maximum of three credits from MANAGMT 398 to satisfy an Aspect of Change elective.
Undergraduate Isenberg Majors:
Visit the Isenberg Internship & Co-Op Process page on iConnect for a complete guide to these processes.
In addition to the course options identified below, Isenberg undergraduates in all majors can earn internship credit as UMASS 298 and may count those credits towards the 120 credits required to graduate.
- Internships for Credit Available?: For Undergraduate Students
- Course(s): MARKETNG 398, MARKETNG 498B (Advertising Practicum)
- Contact: Elizabeth Miller | @email
- Notes: Students can apply up to three credits of an internship to satisfy the upper-level business elective requirement of the marketing major.
Undergraduate Isenberg Majors:
Visit the Isenberg Internship & Co-Op Process page on iConnect for a complete guide to these processes.
In addition to the course options identified below, Isenberg undergraduates in all majors can earn internship credit as UMASS 298 and may count those credits towards the 120 credits required to graduate.
- Internships for Credit Available?: For Graduate Students
- Course(s): SCH-MGMT 696 (for CPT), SCH-MGMT 698
- Contact: Bobbi Hopkins | @email
Undergraduate Isenberg Majors:
Visit the Isenberg Internship & Co-Op Process page on iConnect for a complete guide to these processes.
In addition to the course options identified below, Isenberg undergraduates in all majors can earn internship credit as UMASS 298 and may count those credits towards the 120 credits required to graduate.
- Internships for Credit Available?: For Undergraduate Students
- Course(s): OIM 498/498Y
- Contact: Senay Solak | @email
- Notes: Operations and Information Management majors can apply a maximum of three credits from field experience to satisfy upper-level electives.
Undergraduate Isenberg Majors:
Visit the Isenberg Internship & Co-Op Process page on iConnect for a complete guide to these processes.
In addition to the course options identified below, Isenberg undergraduates in all majors can earn internship credit as UMASS 298 and may count those credits towards the 120 credits required to graduate.
- Internships for Credit Available?: Undergraduate and Graduate Students
- Course(s):
- Undergraduate: SPORTMGT 298/498
- Graduate: SPORTMGT 698/798A, SCH-MGMT 698
- Contact: Emily Must | @email
- Notes: For undergraduate Sport Management, 12 credits of SPORTMGT 498 replaces two sport management electives. SPORTMGT 298 can count towards overall credit requirement. More information about the process can be found on the Sport Management Internship page.
Elaine Marieb College of Nursing
Traditional credited internships are not typically a part of the nursing plan of study. Nursing students engage in clinical learning experiences, which are all required to be taken at specific times in a nursing student's experience. While these are credited experiences, they are strictly regulated and require training under vetted nurse proctors.
To learn more about clinical learning experiences, reach out to your department advisor. You can also reach out to Reggie Lamothe (@email) for more information.
Traditional credited internships are not typically a part of the nursing plan of study. Nursing students engage in clinical learning experiences, which are all required to be taken at specific times in a nursing student's experience. While these are credited experiences, they are strictly regulated and require training under vetted nurse proctors.
To learn more about clinical learning experiences, reach out to your department advisor. You can also reach out to Reggie Lamothe (@email) for more information.
College of Social and Behavioral Sciences
- Internships for Credit Available?: For Undergraduate and Graduate Students
- Course(s):
- Undergraduate: ANTHRO 298/398/398A/498/498C/498Y
- Graduate: ANHTRO 698
- Contact:
- Notes: Anthropology majors may count up to 4 credits of internship experience towards their major requirements. See Anthropology Internship Opportunities for more information.
- Internships for Credit Available?: For Undergraduate Students Only
- Course(s): UMASS 298
- Contact: Marianne Neal-Joyce | @email
- Notes: For Communication, all internship credits count to the student's 120 credits, but do not count for any departmental requirements
- Internships for Credit Available?: For Undergraduate and Graduate Students
- Course(s):
- Undergraduate: ECON 298/298Y/398/398C/398Y/498/498Y
- Graduate: ECON 598
- Contact:
- Notes: Internship credits may not be used towards major requirements
- Internships for Credit Available?: For Graduate Students
- Course(s): LABOR 698L/698R/798
- Contact: Nellie Taylor | @email
- Internships for Credit Available?: No (Practicum courses dropped after Spring 2022)
Students looking to pursue an internship in Legal Studies should check with Alan Gaitenby.
- Internships for Credit Available?: For Undergraduate Students
- Course(s): LEGAL 298; LEGAL 298C (Citizen's Police Academy)
- Contact: Alan Gaitenby | @email
- Notes: Students may take up to 18 total internship credits towards graduation completion. 3 credits of LEGAL 298 or Legal 298C may be used to replace a Law-Related Liberal Arts Course.
- Internships for Credit Available?: For Undergraduate Students
- Course(s):
- Undergraduate: POLISCI 298; POLISCI 498D
- Graduate: POLISCI 698
- Contact:
- Notes: Students may take up to 18 total internship credits towards graduation completion. Political Science allows up to 3 credits of POLISCI 298 or POLISCI 498D internship experience to count towards the 200-level major requirements if you were admitted to UMass Summer 2023 or later. Students need to be sponsored by a Political Science faculty member to enroll in those internship classes. Students admitted prior to that can apply POLISCI 498D to the 300-level requirements of major. This graded course requires significant work with a Political Science faculty member.
- Internships for Credit Available?: For Undergraduate and Graduate Students
- Course(s): SPP 396
- Contact:
- Notes: Graduate Students in the School of Public Policy complete a policy- or management-related internship or experiential learning class.
- Internships for Credit Available?: For Graduate Students
- Course(s): REGIONPL 698/698A (Practicum Masters Project)
- Contact: Henry Renski | @email
- Internships for Credit Available?: For Undergraduate and Graduate Students
- Course(s):
- Undergraduate: RES-ECON 398
- Graduate: RES-ECON 698
- Contact:
- Notes: In Resource Economics, internship credits can only serve as elective credit toward the University 120 credit requirement, and cannot be used in place of any major requirement.
- Internships for Credit Available?: For Undergraduate Students
- Course(s):
- SOC-BEHAV 398B: SBS in Boston Internship
- SOC-BEHAV 398D: SBS in DC Practicum
- SOC-BEHAV 398W: SBS int he World Internship Practicum
- Contact: Carol Sharick | @email
- Internships for Credit Available?: For Undergraduate Students
- Course(s): STPEC 298/398/498Y
- Contact: Monica Garcia | @email
- Notes: STPEC students are required to complete 120 hours of internship work (one 3 credit internship). See STPEC Internship Requirement for more information.
- Internships for Credit Available?: For Undergraduate Students Only
- Course(s): SOCIOL 398/498 (counts towards department credit); SOCIOL 298 (counts only towards graduation requirements)
- Contact: Kat Fabel | @email
- Notes: Sociology majors can replace their 4-credit, 200-level sociology elective requirement with a 4-credit, letter-graded, sociology-related internship that has been approved by an advisor. See Sociology Internships for a list of internship sites and more details about completing an internship.
- Internships for Credit Available?: For Undergraduate Students
- Course(s): SUSTCOMM 298/398/498Y
- Contact: Peter Dunn | @email
- Notes: Sustainable Community Development may count practicum or independent study credit as a free elective or in limited exceptional contexts as a concentration elective, but not as a substitute for a core requirement.
School of Public Health and Health Sciences
- Internships for Credit Available?: For Graduate Students
- Course(s): BIOSTAT 896, EPI 698
- Contact: Elizabeth Donohoe Cook | @email
- Internships for Credit Available?: For Graduate Students
- Course(s): EHS 698
- Contact: Alexander Suvorov | @email
- Notes: All Master's of Public Health (MPH) Environmental Health Sciences students complete a practicum.
- Internships for Credit Available?: For Graduate Students
- Course(s): HH 698
- Contact: Jennifer Whitehill | @email
- Notes: Master's of Public Health (MPH) tracks of Community Health Education and Health Policy & Management have practicum requirements.
- Internships for Credit Available?: For Undergraduate Students and International Graduate Students
- Course(s):
- Undergraduate: KIN 398, KIN 398A, KIN 498, KIN 498Y
- International Graduate: KIN 696
- Contact:
- Notes: Up to 3 credits of KIN X98 credits can cover a KIN elective for KIN majors
- Internships for Credit Available?: For Undergraduate and Graduate Students
- Course(s):
- Undergraduate: NUTRITN 198/298/398/498
- Graduate: NUTRITN 698
- Contact: Nicole Goldstein | @email
- Notes: There are three tracks in nutrition and students can use NUTR 298, 398 or 498 for internship credit, which counts for credit but not toward major requirement.
- Internships for Credit Available?: For Undergraduate and Graduate Students
- Course(s):
- Undergraduate: PUBLHLTH 398
- Graduate: PUBLHLTH 698
- Contact: Sofija Zagarinx | @email
- Notes: In some instances the Public Health Sciences Department allows internships to cover a course requirement for an elective, but it’s on a case by case basis. Consult with an academic advisor in Public Health Sciences.
- Internships for Credit Available?: For Undergraduate Students Only
- Course(s): SLHS 398, SLHS 498Y
- Contact: Gwyneth Rost | @email
- Notes: Students in Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences are required to take an elective course in the major numbered 300 or above and can meet that requirement with an internship.