Internship Policies

Music Business

The internship experience is an important bridge between academic preparation and career development. Students undertake an internship at a professional firm involved in some facet of the music industry.

• The internship may only be undertaken after the student has successfully completed MUBU.4010 Music Business Seminar.
• The student/intern shall receive no compensation and shall be considered a full-time student undertaking studies with the intern sponsor. The sponsor shall not be held responsible for workman’s compensation, disability insurance, unemployment insurance, and other legal obligations normally assumed for regular employees. The intern shall provide his or her own accident and health insurance.
• Where circumstances are appropriate, the internship sponsor may arrange to reimburse the intern for housing, board, travel, and incidental expenses, or to pay the intern a stipend.

The internship may only be undertaken after the student has successfully completed all required SRT courses; exceptions shall be made only for the final 3-6 credits of SRT electives.

• The student must have a cumulative grade point average of 2.500 or higher and a GPA of 3.000 in Sound Recording Technology and support courses prior to undertaking the internship, to insure that students are academically prepared for the study. 
• The internship shall be for a period of fifteen weeks. A minimum of twenty hours per week is to be spent at the location of the internship sponsor, working as assigned. It is expected that twenty hours per week will be the norm; additional hours are strongly encouraged, but not required.
• The student is registered under course MUSR.4930 Internship in Sound Recording Technology for six credit hours. The intern must be registered as a full-time student during the semester of the internship unless by special exemption.
  • If necessary, the student will register for one or two sections of “Directed Studies in SRT” to reach the credit load of a full-time student.
• The student/intern shall receive no compensation and shall be considered a full-time student undertaking studies with the intern sponsor. The sponsor shall not be held responsible for Workman’s Compensation, Disability Insurance, Unemployment Insurance, and other legal obligations normally assumed for regular employees. The intern shall provide his or her own accident and health insurance.
• Where circumstances are appropriate, the internship sponsor may arrange to reimburse the intern for housing, board, travel, and incidental expenses, or to pay the intern a stipend.
• The student will solicit the internship, and interview with the internship sponsor prior to the beginning of the internship experience. In the event that the SRT program is solicited by a prospective internship sponsor and a student is recommended by the coordinator of Sound Recording Technology, it remains the student’s responsibility to interview and otherwise arrange for the internship.