Academic Credit

At Saint Peter's College, we don't consider your Cooperative Education & Internship experience merely a job and we don't consider promoting your career development the program's only objective. After all, why are you planning to attend college in the first place? We'd like to think that it has something to do with learning - that you've already realized that you need to know a lot more about a lot of things in order to be successful.

In order to help you get the most out of your Cooperative Education & Internship learning experience, we arrange for you to have four teachers:

1. Your Co-op Education & Internship Advisor - will not only help you get your co-op position, but also work with you to maximize your learning from it.
2. Your Workplace Supervisor - will understand that you are there not only to work, but also to learn, and therefore will help structure your work to facilitate learning, as well as improve your skills and productivity.
3. You - will have the opportunity, with support from your co-op & internship advisor and work supervisor, to explore things on your own, enhancing your knowledge and skills, as well as your career development.
4. Your Faculty Sponsor - will serve as your personal guide in helping you to integrate your academic studies with what you are learning on the job.

Through the Program's Academic Component, you may earn academic credit by designing your own course, in consultation with the Faculty Sponsor. You choose the topic (we call it the Academic Theme), as well as the Faculty Sponsor, (most students choose a professor they've had in a previous course).

The only requirement for the Academic Theme is that you choose something you're interested in studying that relates to your work, work organization, or the career field in which you are working. The only requirement in choosing a Faculty Sponsor is that you choose someone whose expertise matches what you are interested in studying.

 "Through the Academic Component of Cooperative Education, students are given an opportunity to develop the research and analytical ability that they will find so useful in their future careers."

Albert Davis
Adjunct Lecturer
Department of Business Administration