Two major internship centers offer undergraduate students opportunities for local and national experiences that carry academic credit.
The Center for Community Engagement creates opportunities for UCLA faculty, students, and staff to collaborate with community partners to build an equitable and just society through community-engaged research, teaching, and community programs. The center supports faculty, students, and community partners to create successful community-engaged courses and research, credit-bearing internships, signature scholarship opportunities, AmeriCorps programs, and community youth programs. The center is home to the undergraduate minor in Community Engagement and Social Change and study away programs in Washington, D.C. and Sacramento. More recently, the center has taken a lead role in the development and implementation of deepening UCLA engagement with Los Angeles.
The University of California Center Sacramento (UCCS) is operated by UC Davis. UCCS advances the university’s mission of teaching, research, and public service with an integrated program to train future state leaders, to address challenging public-policy issues confronted by the nation and state, and to carry out the university’s mandate to assist state government. UCCS places students in intensive one-term policy-related internships throughout the state Capitol building and in the Sacramento policy community. Participating students take a full term’s worth of credit-bearing courses in addition to their internships. UCCS is open to all majors. For full eligibility criteria and application information, see the UCCS admissions web page.
