Thinking outside the classroom
Because some experiences are impossible to gain in the traditional classroom setting, we offer students various internship opportunities with both local and national companies and organizations. By participating in an internship, students gain relevant career-related experiences that reinforce what they have learned in the classroom and make them more marketable after graduation.
Most students who pursue an internship do so in their junior or senior year. They generally spend between 120 and 150 hours at a job site and regularly interact with an academic supervisor.
Internships are offered during the fall and spring semesters and during the summer.
Below is a list of companies where students have completed internships in recent years:
- Abbott Laboratories
- Alliance Francaise
- Boys and Girls Clubs of Southeast Louisiana
- Children’s Hospital
- Louisiana's Civil War Museum
- Consulate General of France
- Folger Shakespeare Library
- Habitat for Humanity
- Hispanic Apostolate
- Local New Orleans art galleries
- Local New Orleans museums
- Local New Orleans publications (New Orleans Review, Gambit, New Orleans Magazine, Offbeat)
- Local New Orleans theatres
- Local television stations
- Louisiana State Museum
- MTV Networks
- NASA Undergraduate Student Research Program
- New Orleans AIDS Task Force
- New Orleans Film Commission
- New Orleans Public Schools
- Oak Ridge National Lab
- Science and Engineering Research Semester (SERS)
- Smithsonian Institute
- The People’s Institute for Survival and Beyond
- Writing Across the Curriculum
- YWCA