Fieldwork and Internships
Professional Experiences in KHS
Practicums, Fieldwork, and Internships are professional experiences that are core to all of our degree programs.
All professional experiences in the Faculty are partnerships between the experiential learning coordinator, the student, and a community agency/organization that hosts the placement.
Professional experiences:
- Facilitate personal growth in a ‘real world’ work environment
- Are a critical step in preparing for a career
- Provide the opportunity to apply what has been learned through course work
- Help improve professional competencies and skills
- Deepen one’s understanding of what to expect in professional life
- Allow refinement of career aspirations
- All our hands-on professional experiences require students to prepare learning objectives for the experience and involve midterm and final evaluations of performance.
What is a Practicum?
- Part-time unpaid local professional experiences
- Students pay tuition
- Requires completion of assignments
What is Fieldwork?
- Typically taken in the last semester of study
- Involves 12 to 16 weeks of full-time work
- Requires completion of a project and assignments
- Students pay tuition as they earn credit hours toward their degree
- Fieldwork experiences are unpaid
What is an Internship?
- Are paid experiences
- Requires full-time employment in a professional context
- Lasts a minimum of 8 months but may be up to a year long
- Students pay a fee each semester of the internship
- Students DO NOT earn credit hours toward their degree, but the internship is required for graduation
- Only available to Sport and Recreation Management Majors or students in the joint degree program with Business Administration