Internship in Health and Physical Education

Catalog description

Supervised, pre-professional field experience in health and physical education. The student will secure an internship site related to his/her interests and career goals. Potential internship sites include health and fitness clubs, community wellness agencies, coaching opportunities, hospitals, corporations, and private services. The student will work fifty hours per credit per term at his/her internship site. Students are required to obtain a faculty sponsor, develop learning objectives at the start of their internship, keep a journal of their internship activities throughout their placement, and write a final paper reflecting upon their internship experience. This is a pass/fail course. Departmental approval is required to take this course. Junior standing (and others by permission of a faculty advisor), placement opportunity and approval by the Health and Physical Education Department are required to take this course. Limited to Health majors.