Provisional University Bulletin (2025-2026)

Internships allow students to apply the liberal arts skills of research, writing and analysis in work-world situations, thereby enhancing the development of these skills. A credit-bearing internship has a significant faculty-guided academic component, which provides a valuable learning experience for the undergraduate and makes a meaningful contribution to the student's program of study. It should require use of research, writing and/or analytical skills and include a specific project to be accomplished in the designated time period.

Brandeis awards academic credit for the completion of an internship in conjunction with a faculty-led internship course. Brandeis offers three different forms of credit-bearing internship courses, however, course offerings vary by academic program and semester. Internship Seminars, which include weekly meetings as a class, are offered by departments/programs under the course number 89, and generate either two or four credits. Independent Internship & Analysis courses, which are individually arranged by a single student and instructor, are offered under the course number 92. Research-based internship courses, which are individually arranged by a single student and instructor around a research project, are offered with the course number 93 and the course title Research Internship.

All internship courses are subject to the normal enrollment deadlines; specific directions for registering can be found on the Schedule of Classes each semester. Participation is normally limited to juniors and seniors. International students wishing to complete internships must enroll in an internship course, meet visa requirements and obtain approval from the International Students and Scholars Office (ISSO) for all internships. A student may not receive more than a total of 16 credits from internship courses during their undergraduate career. Normally a student may not receive more than 4 credits through a 92-numbered internship course in a semester or term. Also, a student may not use one internship experience in multiple internship courses. Petitions for exceptions are reviewed by the Executive Committee of the Committee on Academic Standing (such petitions are initiated through an academic advisor in the Office of Academic Services). Students interested in pursuing an internship while on study abroad should contact the Office of Study Abroad for further information on procedures and requirements specific to such opportunities.

INT 89a and b

INT 89a and b is an undergraduate 2-credit course offered in fall and spring. This course is available in addition to the Brandeis internship course offerings related to specific academic areas. INT 89a and b allow students from any discipline to enroll, giving all students the opportunity to combine instructor-guided academic assignments and intentional reflections with a related, concurrent internship while developing their academic, personal, and career development goals. Once an approved internship is identified, students enroll in INT 89a and b in the fall or spring with instructor's permission. Students whose major or minor offers an internship option should first seek to enroll in those courses instead.

International students are eligible for INT 89a and b once they have completed one year of study at the bachelor's level in the U.S. and have declared a major. Alternatively, international students interested in U.S. internships may enroll in the department course numbered 89 or 92 within the major, if one is offered.

INT 92g

INT 92g is an undergraduate 1-credit course offered in the summer that allows students to receive Brandeis credit for a summer internship through additional academic coursework. An appropriate summer internship must include site work with a minimum of 100 hours over the course of at least 5 weeks during the summer. Students must complete the required LATTE online academic requirements by the due date and arrange for their internship supervisor evaluation to be received by the instructor prior to the stated deadline in the syllabus. For international students, enrolling in INT 92g provides academic credit for an internship in their major area of study during the summer.

Students interested in this option should obtain an offer letter from their internship organization, including details of the internship duties, dates and supervision. Students then submit the online Learning Agreement. Once the internship is approved for the course, the student may enroll through the normal summer registration process. International students must first enroll in the INT 92g and then obtain the appropriate internship authorization (CPT/Academic Training) from the International Students and Scholars Office (ISSO) prior to beginning the internship experience.

Students may earn one (1) hour of elective credit for each summer INT 92g internship completed. The credit may be applied as general credit toward graduation or may be applied toward fulfillment of major requirements with approval of the major department. The maximum number of Internship credit hours a student may receive towards their undergraduate requirements (including fall, spring, and summer internships) is eight (8) credits in total. Any internship obtained that would put over the credit limit cannot be earned for credit. No retroactive credit will be granted.

International students wishing to withdraw from INT 92g must first obtain approval from ISSO before terminating the internship. Not doing so may cause a violation of student visa status.

HSSP 89a Internship and Analysis

Prerequisites: Open only to HSSP majors who have pursued a health-related internship with the approval of the Internship Instructor.

This course for declared HSSP majors combines: 1) a supervised health-related internship, and 2) a weekly, classroom-based discussion during the Internship Seminar. The internship placement must be clearly health-related and take place within a healthcare organization whose work involves science (e.g., natural sciences and medicine), society (e.g., the social sciences and public health), and/or policy (e.g., law, politics, economics, and organizations). The internship must be arranged in consultation with and approved in writing by the HSSP Internship Instructor BEFORE the internship begins. Further details available at: https://www.brandeis.edu/health-science-society-policy/degrees/hands-on-experience/index.html. Students are required to attend a weekly 1.5 hour section, keep a journal, write several short papers, and prepare several presentations - all of which requires reflection on and systematic analysis of the internship experience. Usually offered every semester.

INT 89a Internship Seminar

Yields half-course credit.

Connect your internship experience in any industry to your academic and professional goals. This 2-credit course meets bi-weekly with internships arranged by students. Through class meetings, assignments, and reflections, you’ll clarify career goals and grow professional skills. Seminar meetings and assignments provide perspective and a substantive basis for the internship experience. Complete this questionnaire for internship pre-approval: bit.ly/INT89. Usually offered every year.

INT 89b Internship Seminar

Yields half-course credit.

Connect your internship experience in any industry to your academic and professional goals. This 2-credit course meets bi-weekly with internships arranged by students. Through class meetings, assignments, and reflections, you’ll clarify career goals and grow professional skills. Seminar meetings and assignments provide perspective and a substantive basis for the internship experience. Complete this questionnaire for internship pre-approval: bit.ly/INT89. Usually offered every year.

JOUR 89a Contemporary Media: Internship and Analysis

Brings together students who have held a summer internship in journalism or are interning concurrently with the course. The instructor will work with students one-on-one and in group settings to sharpen the skills they developed as interns and advance to a higher level of producing professional journalism. This course is required for an internship to count toward the journalism minor. Usually offered every year.

LGLS 89a Law and Society Internship and Seminar
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Prerequisites: LGLS 10a and one other LGLS course or permission of the instructor. To obtain an internship, students must discuss their placements with the LGLS internship director by April 15 for fall term internships or by November 15 for spring term internships. This course may not be repeated for credit.

Course consists of regular class meetings, a supervised law-related internship in a public agency or nonprofit organization, and a related research paper. Students must work between 10 and 15 hours per week at their internship placement site. Examples of internship activities include investigating discrimination cases, negotiating between consumers and small business, and attending criminal and family courts. Internships are arranged in consultation with the Internship Director and the Program Administrator for Legal Studies. Usually offered every semester.

POL 89a Political Science Internship
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Students in the course examine political issues alongside professionals in the field. Students will evaluate the applicability of political science theories and concepts to real-world politics. Seminar meetings and assignments provide perspective and a substantive basis for the internship experience. Usually offered every year.

SJSP 89a Social Justice, Social Policy Internship

To obtain an internship for the fall term, students should discuss their placements with the SJSP internship supervisor.

Supervised internship in a social justice, social service, social policy, or social research organization. Students will meet as a group and will complete research assignments. Usually offered every year in the fall semester.

WGS 89a When Violence Hits Home: Internship in Domestic Violence

Combines fieldwork in domestic and sexual violence prevention programs with a fortnightly seminar exploring cultural and interpersonal facets of violence from a feminist perspective. Topics include theories, causes and prevention of rape, battering, child abuse, and animal abuse. Internships provide practical experience in local organizations such as rape crisis, battered women's violence prevention, and child abuse prevention programs. Usually offered every fall.

AMST 92a Internship in American Studies

Off-campus work experience in conjunction with a reading course with a member of the department. Requires reading and writing assignments drawing upon and amplifying the internship experience. Only one internship course may be submitted in satisfaction of the department's elective requirements. Usually offered every year.

ANTH 92a Internship and Analysis

Students may take no more than one departmental internship for credit.

The department sponsors internships for junior and senior majors and minors. Internships combine off-campus and on-campus work that provides a significant anthropological learning experience and academic study supervised by a departmental faculty sponsor. Majors may substitute one internship for the ninth elective course option. Students doing summer internships register for course credit in the following fall semester. A minimum GPA of B+ in anthropology courses is required for eligibility. For additional information, see the Guidelines for Anthropology Internships, available from the undergraduate adviser. Usually offered every year.

CLAS 92a Internship

Two semester-hour credits; yields half-course credit.

Usually offered every year.

ECON 92a Internship

Signature of the Undergraduate Advising Head required. Does not count toward the major in economics.

Available to economics majors who wish to do an internship as part of an interdepartmental program (e.g., legal studies, environmental studies), where the internship itself will be in an area related to economics. Any economics major not seeking credit for such a program should enroll instead in BUS 89b, an internship class connected to the business major and minor (see the Business section of this Bulletin for the course description). Usually offered by request.

ED 92a Education Internship and Analysis

Usually offered every year.

FA 92a Internship and Analysis in Studio Art

Usually offered every year.

FA 92b Internship and Analysis in Art History

Students may petition to receive credit for internships completed in museums, galleries and arts institutions. Student must get a faculty sponsor with whom they will agree in advance on the internship and requirements for receiving credit. Art history credit can also be earned by completing one of several internships offered at the Rose Art Museum for which students apply in the spring semester for the following academic year. At the Rose, focus may center in the areas of education, registrar, exhibition installation, or curatorial work. All student applications to the Rose, with preference given to upperclassmen, must be endorsed by a faculty recommendation. Usually offered every semester.

FILM 92a Internship in Film Studies

Usually offered every year.

FREN 92a Internship

May be taken with the written permission of the Undergraduate Advising Head.

A combined on- or off-campus internship experience related to French and Francophone studies with written analysis under the supervision of a faculty sponsor. Students arrange their own internships. Counts only once toward the fulfillment of requirements for the major or the minor. Usually offered every semester.

HISP 92a Internship in Hispanic Studies

Written permission of the Undergraduate Advising Head required. Students may take no more than one departmental internship for major credit.

Internships combine off-campus and on-campus work, supervised by a departmental faculty sponsor, that provides a significant learning experience in Hispanic cultural academic study. Students doing summer internships register for course credit in the following fall semester. Junior or Senior Hispanic Studies majors with a minimum GPA of 3.5 in Hispanic Studies courses may substitute one internship for an elective course. Usually offered every year.

HIST 92a Internship in History

History internships allow students to gain work experience and to improve their writing and analytical skills. Although non-credit internships are an option, students seeking course credit must obtain approval from the History internship supervisor in advance, and normally complete some written work under the supervision of a faculty sponsor. Students may count one HIST 92a toward completion of the major or minor. Usually offered every semester.

IGS 92a Global Studies Internship

This course is offered only for non-IGS majors, or for IGS majors engaged in approved credit-bearing internships who have been exempted from IGS 89b. Signature of the IGS internship coordinator is required. Usually offered every year.

IIM 92a Independent Interdisciplinary Major Internship

INT 92g Summer Internship

Yields quarter-course credit.

Usually offered every summer.

ITAL 92a Internship in Italian Studies

May be taken with the written permission of the Undergraduate Advising Head.

Combines on- or off-campus internship experience related to Italian Studies with written analysis under the supervision of a faculty sponsor. This may include study-abroad documented projects. Students arrange their own internships. Counts only once toward the fulfillment of requirements for the Minor or the Independent Interdisciplinary Major. Usually offered every semester.

JOUR 92b Contemporary Media Internship

Prerequisite: JOUR 15a or 138b. Enrollment by Program Director permission only.

A directed reading designed for students who are unable to complete JOUR 89a in the fall. Permission must be obtained from the program director a full semester in advance. Usually offered every year.

LACLS 92a Internship

Combines off-campus experience in a Latin America-related internship with written analysis under the supervision of a faculty sponsor. Students arrange their own internships. Counts only once toward fulfillment of requirements for the major or the minor.

MUS 92a Internship and Analysis

NEJS 92a Internship and Analysis in Near Eastern and Judaic Studies

Usually offered every year.

PAX 92a Internship in Peace, Conflict, and Coexistence Studies

Usually offered every year.

PHIL 92a Internship and Analysis

PHYS 92a Research Internship, Off-Campus

Prerequisite: Permission of the undergraduate advising head.

Same as PHYS 93a but work is performed off-campus. Work done off-campus must be presented in the same forms to the appropriate research group during the semester following completion of the work. Usually offered every year.

PSYC 92a Internship and Analysis in Psychology

Provides an opportunity for the student to supplement an off-campus internship experience with a related academic project. The specific requirements of the research component are negotiated by the student and the sponsoring faculty member. Usually offered every year.

RUS 92a Internship

Usually offered every year.

SOC 92a Internship and Analysis in Sociology

Combines off-campus experience and social scientific inquiry. Under the supervision of a faculty sponsor, students apply sociological methods of analysis to an internship experience. Students develop a specific plan of study with a faculty member in the relevant field prior to undertaking the internship. Open to sociology majors with adequate related prior course work and with permission of the instructor. Usually offered every year.

THA 92a Internship in Theater

All THA students completing internships for credit must enroll in this seminar.

This seminar continues the process of experiential learning through the completion of various projects that utilize the resources of the professional theaters in the Boston area. Usually offered every year.

WGS 92a Internship and Analysis

Usually offered every semester.

BIOL 93a Research Internship and Analysis

Supervised biological research experience in a Brandeis University laboratory. In consultation with a Brandeis faculty member, the student will design and execute an individual research project, culminating in an oral and written presentation. Students seeking to do biology research in Brandeis laboratories outside the biology department but still within Brandeis must obtain permission of the departmental BIOL 93a coordinator. This course is not intended to and will not provide credit for off-campus internships. BIOL 93a is offered both semesters but is a one-semester course and may be taken only once. Students must petition the department for permission to enroll in BIOL 93a. Course requirements include laboratory research, a written report and an oral presentation, as specified in the BIOL 93a petition. Students wishing to do a summer internship for academic credit must obtain permission from the BIOL 93 coordinator prior to commencing the internship; complete the summer internship (a minimum of 10 weeks full-time); and complete the appropriate academic work. Credit will be awarded via the student enrolling in BIOL 93a in the subsequent fall term. BIOL 93a may also be used as one of the two courses needed for Senior Research (see BIOL 99), but does not count as a Biology elective alone. Usually offered every semester.

COSI 93a Research Internship and Analysis

Provides students with an opportunity to work in a computer science research lab for one semester, pursuing a project that has the potential to produce new scientific results. Students and the faculty member mutually design a project for the semester that supports the research agenda of the group. Students must attend all research group meetings and present their findings in oral and written form at the end of the semester. The project typically includes background research, some lab work, and collaboration with other group members. Course requires signature of the instructor, is subject to the availability of undergraduate research positions, and is typically open only to juniors and seniors.

ECON 93a Independent Research

Subject to the availability of research positions and requires the signature of the instructor. Does not count toward the major or minor in Economics. May only be taken once.

Provides students with an opportunity to work with a faculty member on an aspect of the faculty supervisor's research. The student and faculty member mutually design a one-semester project that contributes to ongoing research. Students must meet regularly with their faculty supervisor and present their findings in oral and written form at the end of the semester. Projects typically involve background reading to provide context and data collection and analysis. Usually offered every year.

NEUR 93a Research Internship and Analysis

Supervised biological research experience in a Brandeis University laboratory. In consultation with a Brandeis faculty member, the student will design and execute an individual research project, culminating in an oral and written presentation. Students seeking to do neuroscience research in Brandeis laboratories outside the neuroscience program must obtain permission from the neuroscience Undergraduate Advising Head (UAH). This course is not intended to and will not provide credit for off-campus internships. NEUR 93a is offered both semesters, but is a one-semester course and may be taken only once and not before the fall of junior year. Students must petition the department for permission to enroll in NEUR 93a. Course requirements include laboratory research, a written report, and an oral presentation, as specified in the NEUR 93a petition. Students wishing to do a summer internship for academic credit must: obtain permission from the neuroscience UAH prior to commencing the internship; complete the summer internship (a minimum of 10 weeks full-time); and complete the appropriate academic work. Credit will be awarded via the student enrolling in NEUR 93a in the subsequent fall term. NEUR 93a may also be used as one of the two courses needed for Senior Research (see NEUR 99). Usually offered every semester.

PHYS 93a Research Internship

Prerequisite: Permission of the undergraduate advising head required.

The physics research internship provides students with an opportunity to work in a research setting for one semester, on-campus, pursuing a project that has the potential to produce new scientific results. Student and faculty members mutually design a project that supports the research agenda of the group. Students must attend all research group meetings and present their findings in oral and written form at the end of the semester. The project typically includes theoretical, computational, and/or laboratory research, and may involve collaboration with other group members. In some cases, credit toward the physics laboratory requirement may be given. Course requires signature of the instructor, is subject to the availability of undergraduate research positions, and is typically open only to juniors and seniors. Usually offered every year.

POL 93a Research Internship in Political Science

Supervised research experience in a political science laboratory environment, culminating in a research proposal or report. Usually offered every year.

PSYC 93a Independent Research in Psychological Sciences

Supervised research experience in a psychology laboratory environment, culminating in a research proposal or report. Usually offered every year.