{"id":585,"date":"2018-03-23T09:58:11","date_gmt":"2018-03-23T16:58:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.palomar.edu\/cooped\/?page_id=585"},"modified":"2026-03-02T14:36:51","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T22:36:51","slug":"how-do-cooperative-education-classes-work","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.palomar.edu\/cooped\/how-do-cooperative-education-classes-work\/","title":{"rendered":"How do Cooperative Education Classes Work?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Cooperative Education classes consist of the following components:<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Orientation<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Students will learn about course requirements and set 3 learning objectives that you will work on during the semester. Your supervisor and Cooperative Education instructor will provide feedback and approve your learning objectives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Monthly discussion posts and career readiness assignments<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Students will submit brief monthly reports describing progress on objectives, responding to reflection questions, documenting hours worked on a time sheet, and sharpening some of your employment skills.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Job site visit <\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>The instructor conducts a job site visit with your supervisor at the student work site. Student attendance is optional but encouraged.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Final interview<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Each student attends a final interview with the Coop Ed Instructor. The supervisor may attend this meeting, depending on instructor discretion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-medium-font-size\">Students must complete a minimum 54 supervised hours of employment or internship for each unit of enrollment.<br><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table class=\"has-fixed-layout\"><tbody><tr><td><p style=\"text-align: left\">Units <\/p><\/td><td><br>Total hours <br><\/td><td>Hours per week<br>Full semester<br>16- Week Semester<\/td><td>Hours per week<br>Late Start<br>12- Week Session<\/td><td>Hours per week<br>Fast Track<br>8- Week Session<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>4 units<\/td><td>216 total supervised hours<\/td><td>13.5&nbsp; hours\/ week<\/td><td>18 hours\/ week<\/td><td>27 &nbsp; hours\/ week<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>3 units<\/td><td>162 total supervised hours<\/td><td>10.5&nbsp; hours\/ week<\/td><td>13.5&nbsp; hours\/ week<\/td><td>20.25 &nbsp;&nbsp;hours\/ week<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>2 units<\/td><td>108 total supervised hours<\/td><td>6.75 &nbsp;hours\/ week<\/td><td>9&nbsp;&nbsp;hours\/ week<\/td><td>13.5&nbsp; &nbsp;hours\/ week<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Table of hours requirement by units of enrollment.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cooperative Education classes consist of the following components: Orientation Students will learn about course requirements and set 3 learning objectives that you will work on during the semester. Your supervisor and Cooperative Education instructor will provide feedback and approve your learning objectives. Monthly discussion posts and career readiness assignments Students will submit brief monthly reports&hellip; <a class=\"continue\" href=\"https:\/\/www.palomar.edu\/cooped\/how-do-cooperative-education-classes-work\/\">Continue Reading<span> How do Cooperative Education Classes Work?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":502,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-585","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.palomar.edu\/cooped\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/585","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.palomar.edu\/cooped\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.palomar.edu\/cooped\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.palomar.edu\/cooped\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/502"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.palomar.edu\/cooped\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=585"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/www.palomar.edu\/cooped\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/585\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2228,"href":"https:\/\/www.palomar.edu\/cooped\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/585\/revisions\/2228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.palomar.edu\/cooped\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}