<p>Does anyone know if/how undergraduates can receive units for internships? My understanding is that in the film school, undergrads can’t receive units for internships until they’re juniors. Is this the case with other majors? Can frosh or sophs work in part-time interships during the academic year (or the summer, for that matter) and receive units?</p>
<p>If you are a student at Viterbi Engineering, look at the catalogue for a co-op work arrangement—I don’t know if this is for credit or not, sounds like an internship program.</p>
<p>I know I’ve gotten e-mails all semester about a class that you can register for that gives you 1-2 units of internships. Maybe go back through your USC email and look for something like “Need units for an internship?” because I’m almost positive that was the big headline in the e-mail.</p>
<p>It also depends what you are trying to do with this credit. Does your major require it so you need actual USC credit on paper? Or is it just the internship wants any academic credit because you are an unpaid employee? </p>
<p>If you are going to do the internship during the semester and you have extra units to spare, all USC schools should have some generic “internship” course for 1 to 2 units. However, if you are doing the internship outside of the 18 units or during the summer, I would not seek credit from USC unless it is required for graduation. </p>
<p>Auditing a USC “internship” course could run $2000-3000 for the units. That’s thousands of dollars for USC to shuffle some papers that allows you to work unpaid somewhere else. A community or state college would be a better bet here. Just “enroll” as a visiting student, and snag an internship course for a few hundred bucks.</p>
<p>Thanks for the info! Can’t find email about the “need units for an internship?” class that gives 1-2 units for an internship. If anyone still has a copy of this email that they could paste here or send in a PM, of if they remember anything about its contents, it would be hugely appreciated.</p>