FIELD EXPERIENCE involves working off campus in an organization, putting your knowledge of communication to work. You might work in a local nonprofit organization, a public relations firm, in the public relations department of larger organization, in a volunteer organization, in a government agency, or some other organization. Field experience gives you the opportunity to both put your knowledge to work and to learn more about the way communication works in the real world.

To do a field experience you need to find a professor who will supervise your experience and a place that will accept you as a full-time or part-time intern. You will negotiate with the organization what your duties and responsibilities will be and you will negotiate with the instructor what you will need to do to receive credit. You will also need to sign up for SC 495: Field Experience.