Participants in our newly unveiled London Internship Program will combine coursework on British Technology and Culture with carefully chosen internships at British firms. Internships are imbedded in UC Davis culture, and there are good reasons why so many thousands of students view them as essential. Internships are great preparation for graduate and professional schools, as well as for launching a career. Internships allow students to explore their interests and skills, evaluate their preliminary career plans, and change direction if need be. An internship adds a powerful line to a student s resume, and most sponsors are eager to write enthusiastic letters of recommendation in return for good service.
Some sponsors offer their interns full time career employment after they graduate.
Students who complete internship requirements have their accomplishments listed on their official transcripts, and, if concurrently enrolled in courses with 92 or 192 designations, earn academic units that count towards graduation. Internship and Career Center staff builds strong collaborative relationships with internship sponsors and ensures that students work with qualified mentors in settings conducive to learning. Over the years, thousands of agencies, businesses and firms have sponsored Davis students. A few examples are Apple Computer, the California Department of Water Resources, Caltrans, Delloitte and Touche, Genentech, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Gap Inc., General Mills, Hays Trucking, Hewlett Packard, Industrial Light and Magic, Intel Corporation, Mervyns of California, Phillips Chiropractic, the Sacramento Zoo, Senator Barbara Boxer, the UC Davis Medical Center, the US Bureau of Land Reclamation, the US Department of State, the US Forest Service, and Walt Disney Imagineering. In the sections that follow you will read comments from students who completed internships during 1999-2000.