Internships, Careers  & Scholarship

Internships

Micaela Bigg
2011 Labor Studies Scholarship Winner

Ian Poulos
2012 Labor Studies Scholarship Winner

Our Labor Studies Internship Course, LABR 170, offers students the chance to earn course credits and practical work experience with a corporation, community organization, labor union, or other non-profit employer. The three credit option requires students to work at an approved off-campus site at least six hours per week, and to spend three hours weekly in related academic activities specified by the faculty advisor.  The six credit internship option requires at least twelve hours weekly at the approved off-campus organization and six hours of related academic work.

Each student internship is required to be organized and supervised by a full-time faculty member of the program. The Internship course counts towards fulfillment of one of the five elective course categories required for completion of the B.A. degree in Labor Studies.

To identify appropriate internships, we partner with the Hofstra Career Center. Students interested in obtaining an internship are strongly encouraged to first visit the Career Center Website and take advantage of the Online Pride-Career Management System (Pride-CMS). This system enables jobseekers to upload resumes, review employer internship offers, apply for internships and much more.

Once you find an internship vacancy that you are interested in and qualify for, contact the Labor Studies Office via email to make sure that your internship meets the requirements to qualify it for LABR 170 credits and to be assigned a Faculty Internship Advisor.

Career Options

What can you do with a Labor Studies education after graduation? Job-seeking graduates invariably find this training a great asset for a wide range of careers:

• Business (particularly human resources)
• Forensic Economics
• Government
• Higher Education
• Journalism
• Labor & Employment Law
• Labor Unions
• Mediation and Arbitration
• Personal Injury Law
• Policy Research
• Public Relations
• Social Justice Organizations

A Labor Studies education also prepares students for Graduate Programs in Labor and Industrial Relations or in another related area such as Business, Economics, Education, Journalism, Law, Media, Public Administration and the Social Sciences.

Career Information is available on many professional websites. For a list of helpful career sites click here.

Scholarship

Long Island Labor Studies Scholarship
Labor & Employment Relations Association

Each year, the Long Island chapter of the Labor & Employment Relations Association awards scholarships to outstanding sophomore and junior Labor Studies students enrolled in Long Island universities. Any sophomore or junior year student who majors or minors in Labor Studies and has an overall GPA of 3.5 or higher qualifies. More information is available on their website www.liera.org. Interested students should  contact the Labor Studies office, via email by February 15th for aide in applying for the scholarship.

Hofstra Financial Aid Options

Contact your Student Financial Services Counselor or stop by:
Student Financial Services
206 Memorial Hall
(516) 463-8000