Non-Credit Internships

Students considering time away from Northwestern, for whatever reason, might look into pursuing a non-credit internship, either for pay or as a volunteer. This can be an especially good way to spend your summer break. The best on-campus source of information for non-credit internships is University Career Services.

Students who plan to do an internship or to work at a temporary job sometimes wonder if they can earn academic credit for their experience. Weinberg College policy allows academic credit for such work only when it is part of an internship program organized to have academic content by a Weinberg College department or interdisciplinary program and approved by the Curricular Review Committee. You can find out about approved for-credit internshipselsewhere in this section of the Undergraduate Studies website.

Sometimes a student hopes to do a non-credit internship and is told by the sponsoring organization that he or she can’t do the internship unless the school gives academic credit for it. If this happens to you, then contact the Weinberg College Office of Undergraduate Studies and Advising. Arrangements can be made for you to be registered in the special non-credit internship course Gen LA 114 (General Liberal Arts 114), and the sponsoring organization can be sent an explanation of College policy on internships and of the Gen LA 114 registration.