Internships
Georgetown does not award credit directly for participation in internship experiences. While we fully understand that such experiences are educational and contribute to the broad development of the student, we award academic credit only for formal intellectual reflection supervised by our faculty. We understand the credit conditions of some internship experiences and therefore advise our students to seek faculty sponsorship for their work. Such sponsorship assumes the form of securing the agreement of a faculty member with whom the student will work in the next semester. This work normally takes the form of a journal or series of papers and becomes the basis for an individual, tutorial course for academic credit. Through this mechanism, the student can earn credit for the internship.
Students may also wish to explore several Georgetown courses which are designed for students in internships.
Government or Public Policy Internships: GOVT-241 Public Affairs Seminar Internship
Students whose internships involve the policy making process through the Congress, the Executive Branch, or with an organization involved in the policy making process at the national level may register for this course.
Business Internships: MGMT-311 Internship in Business
Georgetown College students may take this one-credit pass/fail course, which is offered through the McDonough School of Business. Students in the College may enroll in this course for academic credit towards the College bachelor's degrees. The credit is free elective credit towards the 120 credit total for the degree. It does not count toward the 38 to 40 courses required for the degree.
Students who may wish to enroll in the course a second time (or subsequent times) will have permission to enroll and the course may be recorded on the GU transcript, but the course will be marked as a "repeated" course and excluded from earned hours toward the degree. In other words, only the first credit and only this one credit may be applied to the College degree requirements.
Note: Students in the College are not permitted to enroll in MGMT310, which is intended for MSB students with junior and senior standing.
Print, broadcast, and internet internships: ENGL472 Media Techniques: Group Tutorial
Students who will be participating in an internship at a local media outlet during the summer or fall semesters may apply to take this three-credit elective. ENGL-470 Introduction to Journalism is strongly suggested as a prerequisite to this course.
