Psychology 4890: Internship
John T. Ault, Ph.D.
Last updated: 13 January 2005
Internship allows students to receive up to 12 academic credits for supervised, professional level services. (Students can take anything from one to twelve credits per semester up to a maximum of 12 credits.)
Normally Internship follows both Practicum and Advanced Practicum. Mature students, however, can take Internship without these prerequisites, with instructor permission.
The requirements for Internship are:
1. Forty-five volunteer hours/academic credit, or 100 paid hours/academic credit (hours to credit ratio can be adjusted for combinations of paid and volunteer hours);
2. Favorable evaluation from the host agency supervisor;
3. Acceptable update or growth/model/comparison paper;
4. Adhering to the professional conduct standards described in the practicum syllabus.
Before beginning an internship students should have read and understood the information, conditions, and expectations presented in the practicum, PSY 3800, syllabus. Even though some of the information does not apply to the internship, the practicum course normally serves as the foundation for the internship, and therefore, interns who have not taken the practicum course should familiarize themselves with the syllabus.
At minimum, interns need to meet with the course instructor at the beginning of the internship for planning, and again at the end for evaluation. Additional meetings can be scheduled by either the student or instructor on an as-needed basis.
By Southern Utah University policy, grading for the internship is on a pass-fail basis. The “P” grade does not affect a student’s grade point average.
Internship credits do not count as part of the minimum required number of credits for a psychology major or minor. They do count as upper division credits which count toward graduation.
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