Career Development

School of Art students can find local internships at organizations or non-profits, such as:

• African American Museum of Southern Arizona
• Arizona Historical Society
• Arizona State Museum
• Asthma & Airway Disease Research Center (UAHS)
• Ben’s Bells
• Center for Creative Photography
• Coit Museum of Pharmacy and Health Sciences
• Darkroom at the School of Art
• Digital Print Studio at the School of Art
• Flandrau Science Center and Planetarium
• GeoDecor Fossil and Mineral Lab
• Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research
• LetterPress at the School of Art
• Mini Time Machine Museum of Miniatures
• Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA)
• Museum of Optics, College of Optical Science
• Pay It Forward Tucson, Inc.
• Remember When… Photography
• Rialto Theatre
• Sculpture Tucson
• Silhouette Photography
• Sonoran Institute
• The Drawing Studio
• Tucson Museum of Art
• UA Biosphere 2
• UA Campus Health
• UA Campus Recreation
• UA Digital Humanities
• University of Arizona Athletics
• University of Arizona International
• University of Arizona Museum of Art
• Western Archaeological Conservation Center (WACC)
• Within Studio

For Internships: We will be using Adobe Sign.

1. Provide your supervisor’s name and email.
2. Provide faculty sponsor’s name.
3. Email Wilma Pinedo, wpinedo@arizona.edu with the information above and we will send you the form from Adobe Sign.
   • You will fill in the information for the student, when you have completed your information, submit it.
   • The form will be routed to your Supervisor, who will fill in their information, sign the document, then submit it. Your supervisor may also attach a job description at this point in the process.
   • After your supervisor has signed, the form will be routed to your faculty sponsor. They will sign before the form returns to Art Advising to be processed and added to your schedule.
4. Be on the lookout for a confirmation email that the Internship has been added to your schedule. If you do not receive a confirmation email, then your internship has not been added to your schedule.

Credit hours: The student will earn one hour of academic credit for every 45 hours (3 hours per week) per semester of supervised work. Fall and spring semesters are each fifteen weeks. The usual number of hours is 9 hours of work per week per semester for 3 semester credit units. The maximum number of work hours that may be required is 270 per semester for six credit units.

*Summer Sessions are 5 weeks long; 1 credit unit would require 9 hours a week. 3 credit units would require 27 hours work per week.

For Independent Studies: We will be using Adobe Sign.

1. Provide your faculty member’s name and email.
2. Email Wilma Pinedo, wpinedo@arizona.edu with the information above and we will send you the form from Adobe Sign.
   • You will fill in the information for the student; when you have completed your information, submit it.
   • The form will be routed to your faculty sponsor to sign.
   • They will sign before the form returns to Art Advising to be processed and added to your schedule.
3. Be on the lookout for a confirmation email that the Independent Study has been added to your schedule. If you do not receive a confirmation email, then your Independent Study has not been added to your schedule.

Credit hours: The student will earn one hour of academic credit for every 45 hours (3 hours per week) per semester of supervised work. Fall and spring semesters are each fifteen weeks. The usual number of hours is 9 hours of work per week per semester for 3 semester credit units. The maximum number of work hours that may be required is 270 per semester for six credit units.

*Summer Sessions are 5 weeks long; 1 credit unit would require 9 hours a week. 3 credit units would require 27 hours work per week.

LinkedIn and Indeed are two other options in finding an internship. Students also can connect with alums and professionals on the School of Art LinkedIn page.

LinkedIn

• How to search for an internship

• More tips

Indeed

• Complete guide to internships

• Find internships