Work Experience for credit offers students the opportunity to earn college credit while gaining valuable real-world experience in a job or volunteer position.
Students often need to work while in school. This valuable experience can set them up for success in the future as any work experience is beneficial for your long term success. Earning CSU transferrable credit for working can be a game changer allowing you to earn credit for college and potentially relieving the pressure students feel to fulfill a unit quota required for various programs and services.
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How to get started:
Registration process for Work Experience for-credit:
The course runs every semester, however sections are built as needed and may not appear in the schedule of classes--students must fill out the Enrollment Request Form and be approved before they can get authorized to have their section built and add the course to their schedule.
If you have an employer in mind, you can download and start to fill out the Employer Agreement so that it's ready to go when the Instructor asks for it.
Once approved, the instructor will send you directions on how to register for your course using “My Cabrillo”. Please reach out to Serena Federman, the Internship and Work Experience Instructor if you have questions sefederm@cabrillo.edu
Course Details:
The Internship and Work Experience classes are repeatable.
Students can opt to take between .5-12 units per semester. The Instructor will advise you on how many units to take if you are not sure. 1 unit = 54 hours of work experience.
Students must have an employer designated in order to register for the class, the Employment and Internship Office can help you with this!
“Not only did this experience allow me to expand and further polish my customer service skills (such as developing great communication skills between coworkers and serving students) but it also offered me the opportunity to learn to overcome work obstacles. In my future aspirations I am not always in control of situations, as a result, it is a great value to understand that I will need to adapt to new situations in order to offer successful help to clients/customers/patients.”
-Audelia Fernandez, Watsonville ILC Nursing Major