If you would like to offer internship opportunities to your students, have connections to companies, and are willing to place students in internships with these companies, we can create a custom Cooperative Education class for you.

You can serve as the instructor for the program and receive compensation. Cooperative Education instructors are compensated on a per-student basis.

The first step is to reach out to the Cooperative Education Department to discuss your potential host sites and a timeline. Ideally this would happen in the semester before the semester you plan to first offer the internships. However, we recognize that great opportunities can come up suddenly, so we can build late-start, fast-track classes to accommodate opportunities as they come up.

The second step is to reach out to your industry contacts to see if they are willing to host an internship.  The company needs to be willing to:

• Provide an opportunity for the student to learn new skills
• Be willing to host a student intern for a minimum of 54 hours within the dates of each semester in which they wish to participate
• Work with the student to set 3 learning objectives
• Provide training, guidance, mentorship, and constructive feedback to the student
• Participate in a brief site visit (10 minutes) with an instructor from Palomar College during the semester
• Sign off on brief monthly reports prepared by the student
• Complete an internship affiliation agreement- Contact Jason Jarvinen ( JJarvinen@palomar.edu ) to obtain the latest internship affiliation agreement.

Once the course begins, you’ll be responsible for the following:

• Lead an orientation for students at the beginning of the course to review syllabus/grading, talk about learning objectives, and have student submit a student employment data sheet.
• Work with the student to set 3 learning objectives with feedback from the student’s internship supervisor. The learning objectives should focus on learning a new skill, improving an existing skill, or taking on a new project.
• Review monthly reports that the student submits describing progress on learning objectives and documenting hours worked.
• Conduct a job site visit with the student’s supervisor. Student attendance is optional but encouraged.
• Conduct a final interview with the student at the end of the semester to assess progress on learning objectives.

 Students earn credits based on the number of hours they work during the semester.

Units Earned	Total hours	Hours per week Full semester 16- Week Semester	Hours per week Late Start 12- Week Session	Hours per week Fast Track 8- Week Session
4 units	216 total supervised hours	13.5  hours/ week	18 hours/ week	27   hours/ week
3 units	162 total supervised hours	10.5  hours/ week	13.5  hours/ week	20.25   hours/ week
2 units	108 total supervised hours	6.75  hours/ week	9  hours/ week	13.5   hours/ week
1 unit	54 total supervised hours	3.5 hours/ week	4.5 hours/ week	6.75 hours/ week