Radio TV Film

Fill your resume with professional experience

Radio TV Film students are encouraged to broaden their educational experience through one or more internships. Students may enroll in the following course to receive up to three RTF major elective credits.

RTF 400: Professional Internship I

Frequency of Offering:

• Fall Semester
• Spring Semester
• January Interim
• May Interim
• Summer I
• Summer II

Internship Coordinator:

Andrew Smock

A/C W113
920-424-7039
smocka@uwosh.edu

Additional Information:

• You can take RTF 400 more than once, but for no more than three credits total (ex: taking a one credit internship during an interim and a two credit one during another semester)
• Students may also enroll in RTF 401 and/or Interdisciplinary Studies 399 for internship credit. However, these credits will not count toward the RTF major; they will count as general credits toward the degree. Students who have completed three credits of RTF 400 may not receive RTF 401/IDS 300 credits for the same internship.

How to Get An Internship

First, find the company you want to intern with! If you are having trouble finding an internship, please contact internship coordinator Andrew Smock at smocka@uwosh.edu for assistance; he has some resources for finding internships in Wisconsin.

You cannot sign into an internship through TitanWeb. You can only enroll with an add/drop card which means that you will need to contact professor Smock to have the add/drop card signed.  

Students must be enrolled into the course BEFORE the internship starts.  RTF will not issue credits retroactively.

What To Do During Your Internship

Interns need to put in 140 hours or more at the internship to get three credits, 98-139 hours for two credits and 49-97 hours for one.  

Internships can start or end at any time; they need not line up with the academic calendar (if the internship is still underway when grades are due, the student gets an incomplete until the internship concludes).

Interns keep a work log and when they get to the halfway point in hours, they write up a short report on their activities to that point that is submitted to the internship coordinator.

Interns are responsible to alert their supervisor that they need to write a report. The report should be submitted via email to the internship coordinator.

A final wrap-up report is due from both the intern and their supervisor at the end of the internship. 

As soon as all the reports are submitted a grade for the internships is issued.