Internship Opportunities for Management Students

No, but there is a soft deadline to receive 10pts by a certain date. You may secure an internship after that date but you won’t be given the 10 pts.

Michelle Svay and I post several internships on Canvas but most students find their own.  We also have the links to websites, and SDSU Career Services also lists internships on Handshake.   

SDSU Career Services can help with this.  Michelle Svay has also posted some valuable recordings on Canvas for this purpose. 

No!

• 120 hours is required not including final project report preparation or in class time.
• It is the responsibility of the employer and student to keep a time log of the hours.  The University will send your supervisor an evaluation/ skills survey at the end of the semester to confirm you spent 120 hours on the internship.
• You will also be sent a Skills Survey to complete at the end of the semester that will be a self- evaluation of your internship.  Your supervisor will also be sent a link to complete an evaluation of your internship which you will receive at the end of the semester.   It is imperative that you follow up with your supervisor to complete their form since it is worth 10 pts toward your final grade.  You must earn at least 70 pts to receive credit for the course.
• A time log is not required to be include in your final written report.  You and your supervisor will keep track of your hours and your supervisor will be answering a survey as to how many hours you spend at the internship. 

SDSU Career Services will offer a series of workshops during the semester which may be either virtual or in person.  You may select any of the workshops posted but not Career Fairs or other activities.  I will update you on the approved workshops once the schedule is posted on CS website. 

Internships posted on Canvas will be deleted as they are filled

No, only those internships that are "unpaid" but you are still required to complete the submission forms for Michelle Svay as posted on Canvas. 

Please monitor your Canvas assignments to make sure the (zero) -0- is inputted in your SLA and Student Liability Waiver column by Michelle Svay.  -0- designates that the company has been approved and you have signed the Waiver. You will not get credit for the course if either of those columns are blank and I will not be monitoring it for you.

You may contact the professor at [email protected] for a review of the proposed internship before you submit it to Canvas if you are unsure if it will be approved.

The University ( Michelle Svay) is responsible to review and approve the company through the process explained in the Syllabus and first class.  The Professor can give you a “conditional approval” to begin the internship based on either the Project or Learning Activity contract submitted to the Professor since it usually takes a few weeks to get the University to approve the company.

1.  After the Professor has reviewed and approved either the Project Contract OR the Learning Activity Contract you have submitted to Canvas, 10 points will be recorded in Canvas as one of your assignments.  If there are any corrections to be made, the Professor will put it in the Comments section of the grade.  Please state on the top right corner if your internship is paid vs unpaid, remote or onsite. 
2. Either document is acceptable depending on the nature of your internship.   It is up to the student to determine which document is best.  The Project Contract is best for one project with multiple parts and a Learning Activity Contract is best for independent learning objectives that are not related to each other.  For example, a project to write a HR Manual vs. learning objectives from different departments of an organization.   
3. There are completed examples on Canvas of each. 
4.  If the Professor gives you a conditional approval and you begin the internship and the University does not approve the company, you will need to find a new internship but the hours you already spent on the job will be applied to the new internship. 
5. You will not receive an email of approval. 
   

No.  Students must be registered in Mgt. 401 prior to beginning their internship.  Additionally, a job is not considered to be an internship. 

No. Remote internships are acceptable but must be approved by the Professor.

Yes.  These “may” be acceptable.

No

SDSU Contracts & Procurement Dept., that is responsible for the approval of companies through Michelle Svay, clearly stated that a student cannot be an intern at their own business. 

Yes

Yes

Yes

No but you may do a virtual internship in the U.S. with a company located outside the U.S. if the State Dept. approves of that country and the company has a U.S. address.

Yes and No.  You cannot use your current job but you can use your current employer as a site. To use your current employer as your internship site, a separate and distinct project from your normal job responsibilities is required for the total 120 hours and also requires approval by the Professor.

The student must be “supervised” by an authorized person with the company.  Further employer responsibilities may be found in the following document posted on Canvas.

U.S. Department of Labor
Wage and Hour Division
(April 2010)
Fact Sheet #71: Internship Program
Under The Fair Labor Standards Act

There are two types of learning experiences: a project or a series of learning activities.  This learning experience must require you to apply high levels of cognitive processes in a business setting, such as applying what you have learned in school and analyzing and evaluating the effectiveness of these applications.  Routine tasks, such as data entry or clerical work, do not meet this high level of cognitive processes and are not acceptable.  Your supervisor’s active involvement is crucial to you defining your learning experience.  Your supervisor must agree to support your learning experience and later provide an evaluation of your accomplishments.  Managers are always concerned with how to reduce costs, increase revenues, improve processes, or improve the quality of their product or service.  Learning experiences that focus on these areas would most likely be acceptable.

Interning at a cannabis dispensary is not allowed.   Federal law governing cannabis supersedes state law. SDSU needs to comply with federal law to ensure that we remain in alignment with federal guidelines governing relevant areas such as Title IV of the Higher Education Act (federal student aid).

When seeking guidance from the professor regarding the acceptability of your proposed learning experience, you must be able to address in detail one of the two options described below.

• Project: you must accomplish something that “adds value” to the organization and requires significant effort above and beyond your “routine” tasks. Projects involve providing a deliverable to the organization as proof of completion.  This option may be best for employed students.
• Learning Activities: you must undertake a least five specific learning objectives that are appropriate in content, rigor, and level of difficulty suitable for upper division credit. This should involve learning “significant” business processes.  It does not include learning routine tasks.  You must provide proof of your learning.  This option may be best for interns.
  

Yes, you will be given an opportunity to resubmit your document and your 10 pts. is still valid.

Yes, the Assignment can be submitted as of the first day of class.

There are two in- person required classes during the semester.  The first class and the Business Panel Discussion are both in person and required.  

This is a Credit/No-Credit course.  A minimum of 70 points is required. 

Canvas

Late work will not be graded and will receive a grade of No Credit unless provisions are made between the professor and student prior to the due date. 

Incompletes are generally not available.  Running out of time to complete the final report cannot be used as the basis for an Incomplete.  Read the University Catalog to review policy.  Key elements include the fact that it is the student’s responsibility to contact the instructor in ample time to arrange for an “Incomplete.”  No one is entitled to an “Incomplete” without having met requisite conditions. When circumstances beyond your control cause you to want an “Incomplete,” you will need to secure your eligibility by: submitting a signed document why you are requesting an incomplete and when is your date of completion of your final project for it to be considered by your professor. 

• Student didn’t sign Student Liability Waiver 
• Student didn’t submit Supervisor contact information for Michelle Svay’s Approval           
• Student didn’t attend the In Person Business Panel Discussion
• Student didn’t attend 5 workshops Career Services or Fowler Workshops ( Handshake keeps attendance record and I will receive it at the end of the semester)
• Student didn’t turn in Project or Learning Activity contract for Professor Sloan’s Approval. 
  • Learning Activities. No Credit grades on Learning Activity Contracts typically derive from one or more of the following:
    • Failure to describe the organization and the student’s role in it
    • Failure to develop learning objectives that clearly indicate what you will learn
    • Failure to develop learning objectives with sufficient content, rigor, and level of difficulty appropriate for the course
    • Failure to specify what proof you will provide to show that you have learned what you said you would
  • Projects: No Credit grades on Project Contracts typically derive from one or more of the following:
    • Failure to describe the organization and the student’s role in it
    • Failure to clearly define the scope of the project
    • Failure to specify steps to complete the project
    • Failure to specify how the project adds value to the organization
    • Failure to specify how satisfactory completion of the project can be verified.
• Student didn’t turn in Final Integrative Report on time
• Student didn’t include Proof in the Final Integrative Report in Appendix B. 
• Some students do not retrieve graded work as promptly as possible, thereby letting valuable time pass before they can begin to correct any problems the instructor has recognized in their work.
• Students don’t realistically grasp the standards of work required and procrastinate.  They might underestimate requirements because the course provides only “credit” or “no credit”.  This class approves Course Contracts that require approximately 120 hours of total effort and time spent in the organization, EXCLUDING in class time and time spent preparing your final written work.
• Some students do not effectively engage their supervisors as partners in designing and executing Course Contracts as required by the course.  Of these students, some believe they can just do something more or less independent of the system in which they work.

• Students fail to follow established format guidelines.
• Students demonstrate poor writing skills related to grammar and spelling.

If you don’t finish all of your project or activities with your company, you can still get credit for the course if you do 120 hrs. or more but hopefully your supervisor will be kept updated on your progress and won’t be surprised at the end of the semester if you don't finish all the assigned work. You don’t want to burn bridges and get a negative evaluation. For that reason, students typically spend in excess of 120 hours.