Work Experience Education (WORK) classes offer students the opportunity to earn college credit and/or enroll in the Noncredit option while gaining valuable real-world experience in a job or volunteer position.
Students often need to work while in school. Earning CSU transferrable credit for working can be a game changer allowing you to earn credit for college and potentially relieving the pressure students feel to fulfill a unit quota required for various programs and services.
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How to get started:
Registration process for Work Experience for-credit:
The courses run every semester--to enroll students must fill out the Enrollment Request Form and have an Employer identified before they can be authorized to add the course to their schedule.
Once you complete the enrollment form, someone will reach out with the next steps in the enrollment process through email--so be sure to check your email daily.
If you need help finding an Employer, please see the How to Find an Internship section and Work Experience for your Major offers Employer lists to give you ideas. Please reach out to Serena Federman, the Internship and Work Experience Instructor if you have questions sefederm@cabrillo.edu
Class Details:
Classes start usually 2-3 weeks into the semester. These are online classes delivered in Canvas. This allows time for all students to register and start the assignments together. All Work Experience students share one Canvas course. The class runs the entire term and assignments are due throughout the semester and up until the end of the class.
Work Experience classes allow students to engage with supervisors in a way that builds professional capacity. In this way, any job or volunteer position can be utilized as a site for work experience and build professional capacity for the student through the assignments designed to engage supervisors and students in meaningful professional development conversations.
“Not only did this experience allow me to expand and further polish my customer service skills (such as developing great communication skills between coworkers and serving students) but it also offered me the opportunity to learn to overcome work obstacles. In my future aspirations I am not always in control of situations, as a result, it is a great value to understand that I will need to adapt to new situations in order to offer successful help to clients/customers/patients.”
-Audelia Fernandez, Watsonville ILC Nursing Major