Department of English

West Chester University

Contact Info
Anne Herzog
532 Main Hall
West Chester, PA 19383
610-436-2822
aherzog@wcupa.edu

Internships

Increase your Professional Knowledge and Experience. Maybe you know exactly what you want to do after you graduate-or maybe you have no clue. An internship can help you explore a professional area to help you make such decisions, to help you test how you apply your reading and writing skills in work situations, and to allow you to build professional connections. If you're in a major or minor English Department program, you could be eligible for an internship. Why not try one of these interesting opportunities offered by the English Department?

INTERNSHIP COORDINATORS

INTERNSHIP PLACEMENTS

Students have completed both on- and off-campus internships. They have done editorial work and proofreading, written press-releases, designed newsletters, brochures, and web pages, created and conducted questionnaires-among many other activities. Recent placements include Philadelphia-area publishers, local media, public-relations organizations, corporate groups, nationally-based volunteer organizations, and libraries.

INTERNSHIP POLICY

A student seeking an English Department internship must be in the process of completing either a major or minor in the Department. The student will be permitted to undertake an internship under the supervision of the English Department when he or she has met the following requirements:

  1. An accumulation of least 80 semester hours;
  2. Completion of 12 semester hours in courses in the major or minor program
  3. A letter of application to the internship coordinator of the Department of English accompanied by a resume and two faculty references
  4. A meeting with his or her adviser to obtain information about internship eligibility

A student will be limited to 15 credit hours of internship credit. Anyone who wishes to take more than nine hours of internship credit in one semester must obtain approval from the Internship Coordinator after submitting an application and an academic transcript in the preceding semester. The Internship Coordinator will determine the number of credits to be earned during an internship by applying a ratio of 40 hours of work for each hour of academic credit (for example, a student who worked 120 hours would receive three credit hours). The internship credits for English majors are to be applied to the student/advisor-designed program (professional concentration, minor, or electives). Only under exceptional circumstances, and entirely at his or her discretion, will the Internship Coordinator consider applications from students not meeting the Departmental requirements. It is the student's responsibility to demonstrate that he or she has met the academic requirements for an internship.