COOPERATIVE WORK EXPERIENCE (008)

COOPERATIVE WORK EXPERIENCE 101
Cooperative Work Exploration
Career planning, job entry skills, guidance to assist students in exploring and assessing their interests, aptitudes and abilities for consideration of career goals; development of skills necessary for job search success and job entry preparation. Writing assignments, as appropriate to the discipline, are part of the course. Prerequisite: Credit or concurrent enrollment in English 100, or English 127 and Reading 125, or Consent of Department Chairperson. 150 minutes per week. 3 credit hours.

COOPERATIVE WORK EXPERIENCE
The cooperative education courses listed below are designed to provide employment skills as a concurrent and integral part of a student's educational program in a number of career areas.

Students are placed in an approved employment situation mutually agreed upon by the student, college staff and employer, with the opportunity of applying knowledge and being exposed to work methods unavailable in the classroom. College staff members develop with each student a written educational plan, including performance based measurable objectives.

Guidance and supervision is regularly provided by college staff members who visit students at work and confer with the employer, measure progress and work out problems. Follow up seminars with the staff may be scheduled for up to 2 hours per week.

Cooperative Work Experience 105 and 205 - Business Technologies

Cooperative Work Experience 106 and 206 - Commercial Data Processing

Cooperative Work Experience 107 and 207 - Health

Cooperative Work Experience 108 and 208 - Engineering and Industrial Technologies

Cooperative Work Experience 109 and 209 - Natural Science Technologies

Cooperative Work Experience 110 and 210 - Public and Human Services

Students are assigned a job directly related to their academic program, which will enhance educational goals without infringing upon course and program obligations.

Academic credit during the regular semester is awarded on a ratio of 1 semester hour of credit to each 5 hours of approved employment per week for part time employment up to 20 hours per week, with a maximum of 4 semester hours credit for the work component.

Academic credit for full time employment is awarded on a ratio of 1 semester hour of credit for each 10 hours of approved employment with a maximum of 4 semester hours credit for the work component. If offered in conjunction with the work component, 1 semester credit hour is awarded for each seminar hour per week up to a maximum of 2 semester credit hours.
In total, variable credit may be acquired depending on the number of hours on the job and the extent of follow up seminars, up to a maximum of 3 hours for the summer term or 6 hours during the fall or spring semester.

During the summer term, which is one half the length of the fall or spring semester, semester hours of credit is awarded for credit earned in approved employment. Seminars, if offered, require 2 hourly meetings per week for one semester hour of credit to a maximum of 1 semester hour of credit. Writing assignments, as appropriate to the discipline, are part of the course. Prerequisite: Consent of Department Chairperson. Enrollment in an approved program. Completion of a minimum of 12 semester hours or equivalent courses (those required for the major field of study) in the student's major prior to or taken concurrently with such a program. Not more than 12 semester hours of credit in work experience will be accepted for graduation.