Requirements for Applying for Student Internship

• Students should be at least a junior (60 credit hours) and have at least a 2.5 GPA. 

• Students should be enrolled in a medical insurance program (your own, your parent's, or the university student insurance program). 

• Students should be a enrolled full time at UNO and have attended UNO at least one semester before obtaining an internship.

• Students must fill out and return an internship application (download below).

• Make a current version of your resume and a cover letter for each company you would like to apply to for an internship. 

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Enrolling in FTA 4900 or FTA 5900

After you have returned the application, have arranged with a company to intern, and given the internship coordinator your supervisor's name and contact information, then you can enroll in the class.

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Where can you intern?

You can intern with any company you would like as long as it is relavent to your degree. The department has a number of companies that have expressed interest in having UNO students as interns. You may view the available positions on this website.

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You can also search for internships on the New Orleans Film Commission's website.  You can email your resume and cover letter to current and upcoming productions.  You can also contact local film related companies from the same website.

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Any production that contacts us for interns we will post the request on the Jobs and Other Opportunities blog on this website.  Be sure to sign up for it.

Credit for Internship

To get credit for an internship you must follow the syllabus (see below) and do all the required work including keeping a log of your hours, writing a paper and getting your supervisor's evaluation of your performance.  These together will determine your grade.

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Most internships start at the beginning of the semester and finish at the end of the semester.  For these internships you will enroll just like any other class you are taking once you have department consent.

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Some internship do not allow you to start and finish within a semester.  An example would be a feature film which may begin after enrollment closed.  In these cases, you can still get credit for the internship, but only if you complete all the work as per the syllabus.  Course credit can be either given in the following semester, or we can, on a restricted basis, enroll you late in the current semester in which you are doing the internship.

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FTA 4900 or FTA 5900 can be taken twice for class credit. Usually, FTA 4900 and FTA 5900 are not offered during the summer, but if you wish to get credit for a summer internship contact the internship coordinator in the spring semester and arrangements can be made to accommodate your internship credit.