Please submit the "Enrollment Request Form" to Charlene Boggus, 122 Scoates Hall.  

Enrollment Request is due 15 days prior to when classes begin.

Students who complete an internship as an option for their degree in Agricultural Leadership and Development at Texas A&M University, enroll in the course ALED 494, “Internship.”  This internship is designed to give students the opportunity to participate in a career similar to one they envision pursuing upon completion of the degree program. 

A full time1 internship involves approximately 10 weeks - 40 hours per week of actual work time.  Students submit to the department a mid-term summary, a final report, and prepare a visual presentation.  The internship should be one that presents the student with opportunities to utilize previously learned material.  The ideal experience includes an overall view of the assets and liabilities of a career in the student’s chosen field. 

Students who participate in the internship take the initiative to find a possible internship; interview for the position; and sign an agreement approved by the employer, the student, and the university supervisor.  The student receives 6 hours of credit for the successful completion of the full time internship and related assignments. 

Agricultural Leadership and Development Interns have had positions as sales assistants, production agriculture technicians, extension and adult educators, youth leadership educators, law assistants, and political aides.  Other internship positions have been created by students to reinforce their goals and collegiate degree plan. 

Internship credit is not available to students who are self-employed or who are employed by a member of the intern’s family.  Nor is internship credit available for an experience that has occurred in the past. 

Some internship experiences are available in organizations where compensation is available.  However, occasionally, a supervising organization may not wish to pay the same level of compensation to the intern as it might pay to a regular professional.

¹Part time internship configurations are possible with approval of the Coordinator of Agricultural Leadership and Development