Learning More about Internships
Internships provide experiential learning beyond the traditional classroom and are an excellent way to investigate potential career paths, add to your skills, and make contacts. Internships can take place during the academic year or during the summer. You can earn academic credit for an internship that relates to your field of study, or you can do a non-credit internship. For-credit internships require you to work with a faculty advisor in the Department of English and Linguistics; together, you will design a plan to make sure your internship offers a good academic experience, not merely job training.
English and Linguistics Internships–ENGL 499 and LING 499–are part of the campus-wide internship program, offering qualified students the chance to learn and earn college credit through work experience off or on campus. These internships are available for credit toward the major and can also fulfill the Beyond the Classroom general education requirement.
Planning for your Internship
ENLI interns have held positions with weekly and daily newspapers, radio and television stations, public relations departments of businesses and institutions (such as hospitals, museums, and city visitor centers), membership departments, law firms, technical writing businesses, libraries, schools, political offices, and more.
Detailed information about internship searches, credit options, and documentation, is available at the UMW Center for Career and Professional Development. Additionally, this site contains information about grant assistance for unpaid or underfunded internships.
Applying for a Credit-Earning Internship
For more information about the Department’s guidelines for academic internships, see this page.
- For a list of past internships and department advisors, see this page.