Making Connections - Internships & Real World Opportunities

• Our Career Center provides training, support and internship opportunities across all academic majors. Find out more
• See some sample internship opportunities
• See this semester's schedule of internship and career preparation programming

• There's a special schedule of events and programming to support students of the liberal arts and sciences. Find out more
• For example, learn how the Political Science department supports a semester in Washington, DC or the Albany Fellowship program
• Ever wonder what liberal arts majors could do with their degrees? The answer? A lot! Check out career and internship choices at the career center.

• Professor Doug Morrow explains how internships work in the School of Communication.
• See a sample list of opportunities.
• Read about student experiences in Confessions of an Intern.
• Check out this fall's popular on-campus Internship Fair.

• Find out how field placement works and the services the Career Center offers education majors.
• Health studies students (Community Health, Exercise Science, Health Science) are required to do extensive field work and internships, supervised over hundreds of hours by our faculty. Students have been placed in organizations such as the American Cancer Association, Coalition Against Child Abuse and Neglect, the Veterans Affairs Hospitals and most of our area hospitals, to name a few organizations.

An Alumnus Gives Back
by Endowing an Internship

James C. Metzger ’83 has funded a summer internship within the Center for Civic Engagement in honor of his favorite faculty member, History Professor Michael D'Innocenzo. The $25,000 gift will endow the Metzger-D'Innocenzo Endowed Summer Internship for the Center for Civic Engagement at Hofstra University. | more |

Here are just a few samples of students and alumni internship experiences. Move your cursor over the photos to find out more.

Experiential Learning and Field Work

While internships are a critical part of preparing for life after college, its also important to have facilities that allow students to learn experientially. Check out how the Martin B. Greenberg Trading Room, one of the nation's largest simulated trading rooms, does just that. In the Drama and Dance department, find out how upperclassmen have the opportunity to apply for Activity Grants, which provide them with funding to be active in departmental productions and performances.

The Center for Public Archaeology encourages students to get involved in local digs, including a multi-year excavation in Lloyd Harbor, New York, to understand the lives of slaves in the late eighteenth century. The Center for Civic Engagement has a variety of student internships and classroom activities to learn about community service, activism, advocacy and civics. See how the cutting-edge NewsHub and the award-winning community news radio station WRHU give our students hands on experience. Check out the variety of TV broadcasts and films School of Communication students produce in the Student Work section.

In the sciences, check out how first-year engineering students learned basic engineering concepts while having fun during our Annual Grand Design Challenge. Our Physician Assistants' students intern in a variety of clinical settings. Our geology students engage in a variety of research projects and our physics students are engaged through the Center for Condensed Matter Research.

Many of the programs in fields such as psychology, early education, literacy studies, speech-language-hearing, and marriage and family therapy work within the renowned Joan and Arnold Saltzman Community Services Center, right on campus.