External Internship

(0.5-2 Credit Hours) · Undergraduate

This course provides academic credit for students pursuing unpaid internships external to Notre Dame and not directly supervised by ACMS faculty. To be eligible, internships must be meaningfully related to topics in Applied and Computational Mathematics and Statistics (ACMS) and must receive prior approval from the Director of Undergraduate Studies. Proposals must be submitted at least two weeks in advance of the internship by the student, with an offer letter from the internship employer submitted no later than 1 week into the internship. Students may enroll in this course multiple times for different approved internships. The requirements are that the student will be working 30 hours per week for at least 6 weeks and write a journal of activities, submitted regularly to the Director of Undergraduate Studies. A letter from the supervisor regarding satisfactory completion of work, and a 5-to-10-page reflection is also required at the completion of the internship.