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Find an Internship
Internships, volunteer positions, and cooperative education opportunities can be found on student employment job board board via Handshake. For more information on using the platform, visit our Off Campus Student Employment webpage. You can use the job search function within Handshake to filter by job type to find the type of employment you're looking for!
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Teresa Mcdermott
Dean - Business, Information Technology & Transitional Studies
Business & Technology Division
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What is Cooperative Work Experience
What is Cooperative Work Experience
Cooperative Work Experience is a work-integrated learning program that refers to a variety of instructional strategies such as cooperative education, internships, volunteer/service learning, and clinical experiences that use a community site or workplace as a vehicle for learning and applying knowledge and skills required in a planned course of study.
Students participating in Co-op are pursuing degrees or certificates from Olympic College in more than 20 different transfer and/or Professional-Technical programs.
Students earn college credit for their work experience by setting and attaining specific learning objectives. College work-study and regular student employment positions can often be developed into valuable Co-op work experiences.
Co-op's three dimensional focus achieves several goals central to the community college mission:
- Brings the workplace and curricula closer together.
- Helps students bridge the gap between work and learning by offering practical job opportunities.
- Provides direct services to Kitsap and Mason County businesses and builds communication channels leading to continued cooperation between Olympic College and local businesses.
- Contributes to local economic development by providing a steady flow of highly qualified, appropriately skilled employees for employers.