The benefits of completing an internship placement include:

• Apply classroom learning to practical work environments. 
  Interns gain hands-on experience while exploring potential career paths.
• Be competitive in today’s job market.
  Placements provide opportunities to build professional networks and expand career skills, preparing you for full-time recruitment after graduation.
• Get paid for your experience.
  All placements are paid opportunities.
• Official recognition.
  Internship placements are supported by the Faculty and recognized by the University as a notation on the official student transcript. This recognition can add great value to grad school and/or future employment applications.

Internships are just one of the opportunities made possible through the Faculty’s Experiential Education office. The office also coordinates undergraduate awards, such as Student Experience Grants and Undergraduate Student Research Awards and offers unpaid Career Placements, which are job shadow opportunities, and Academic Placements, which are community-based experiences that are part of a specific academic course.

Visit the Experiential Education office page for more information on all of the services offered to Social Sciences students.