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Virtual Internship Courses – 2025 Fall

USAC Virtual Internships are composed of two distinct, yet interrelated components, an online internship seminar and internship hours completed remotely online with a placement site abroad in a given career field. The Virtual Internship Program (seminar + placement) is worth 3 semester credits.

Global Internship Seminar

The Global Internship seminar is a 12.5-hour online seminar that will provide you with essential information to make the most of your internship experience. This online course explores topics such as organizational frameworks and cultures, professional identity, personal branding, and networking that will contribute to your personal, academic, and professional development.

The online seminar will be delivered asynchronously using the Microsoft Teams for Education online learning platform, allowing students to work through the course content at their own pace and in ways that complement their virtual internship experience.

Virtual Internship Placements

Internship hours will be completed with a placement site in one of the following career fields. You will work together with your site supervisor to develop a schedule and work responsibilities relevant to your particular placement. Virtual internships require a minimum 135 hours in addition to the internship seminar.

Business

Business positions may include, but are not limited to, the following work responsibilities:

  • Executive assistance
  • Strategy meeting attendance and participation
  • Liaising with clients, vendors, and suppliers
  • Sales performance review
  • Process analysis and improvement
  • Business intelligence gathering
  • Policy development
  • Business development
  • Workshop organization and presentation
  • Project management
  • Business/Financial plan development
  • Quantitative data analysis
  • Strategic partnerships
  • Market research
  • Consulting
  • Survey development and analysis
  • Event planning

Placements available in China, Czech Republic, France, Italy, Spain, and Thailand

Digital Marketing

Digital marketing positions may include, but are not limited, to the following work responsibilities:

  • Analysis and evaluation of digital presence
  • Social media account management
  • SEO analysis and development
  • ORM strategy development
  • Web editing and design
  • Digital platform content creation
  • Market research
  • Campaign development and promotion
  • Marketing campaign analysis
  • Editorial strategy development
  • Copy editing
  • Graphic communications development
  • Video production
  • Multimedia projects
  • Digital Storytelling

Placements available in China, Czech Republic, Spain, and Thailand

Engineering

Engineering positions may include, but are not limited to, the following work responsibilities:

  • Novel design concept prototyping
  • Material property evaluation
  • Material selection and design
  • Test samples creation and testing plan execution
  • Failure analysis
  • Data analysis, summarization, and presentation
  • Modeling and control techniques of atomic force microscope
  • Modeling, identification, and control of thermal systems
  • Control of Robotino
  • Control systems, systems identification, and signal processing
  • Kalman filtering (linear quadratic estimation)
  • Technical writing

Placements available in Germany

English-Language Instruction

English-Language instruction positions may include, but are not limited to, the following work responsibilities:

  • Lesson planning
  • Curriculum and materials development
  • Online teaching
  • Group and individual tutoring
  • Workshop presentations
  • Professional vocabulary development
  • Pitch training
  • Conversation classes and workshops
  • Holistic communication strategies development
  • Creating supportive learning environments
  • Adult language education
  • Vocational language education
  • Early childhood language education
  • Language education research
  • Teaching assistant

Placements available in China, France, Spain, Thailand, and Uruguay

Grant-Writing and Crowd Funding

Grant-writing and crowd funding positions may include, but are not limited to, the following work responsibilities:

  • Prospect research
  • Application development
  • Exploring crowd funding platforms
  • Funding campaign management
  • Research projects
  • Financial report management
  • New donor research
  • Legal compliance
  • Liaise with potential partners/donors

Placements available in Czech Republic

Health and Wellness

Health and Wellness positions may include, but are not limited to, the following work responsibilities:

  • Research
  • Preparing learning materials
  • Campaign promotion
  • Developing promotional materials
  • Data collection
  • Public health awareness campaign participation
  • Social media management

Placements available in Spain and Uruguay

Human Resources

Human Resources positions may include, but are not limited to, the following work responsibilities:

  • Employee recruitment
  • Assist with recruiting, testing, and interview processes
  • Develop goal setting and assessment metrics
  • Assist with implementation of employee benefits programs and engagement activities
  • Preparing, updating, and recommending human resource policies and procedures
  • Records maintenance
  • Training workshop development

Placements available in China

Journalism and Communications

Journalism and communications positions may include, but are not limited to, the following work responsibilities:

  • Content development
  • News reporting
  • Interviewing
  • Media partner monitoring
  • Content research
  • New media/multimedia development
  • Web content development
  • Proofreading
  • Media content promotion
  • Content editing
  • Social media content development and management

Placements available in China, Czech Republic, and Thailand

NGO and Social Services

NGO and social services positions may include, but are not limited to, the following work responsibilities:

  • Research projects
  • Video projects
  • Project planning and management
  • Liaising with community partners
  • Grant-writing and crowd funding
  • Program development
  • Social enterprise advisement
  • Activities organization
  • SWOT analysis
  • Administrative assistance
  • Report writing and case study development

Placements available in Czech Republic, Thailand, and Uruguay

Research - Health Sciences, Humanities and Social Sciences, Sciences

Research positions may include, but are not limited to, the following work responsibilities:

  • Research assistance
  • Proofreading and editing
  • Summarize relevant research materials
  • Research promotion
  • Comparative analysis
  • Gather, record, transcribe, and digitize documents
  • Edit and proofread translations
  • Collect data
  • Compile notes

Placements available in Czech Republic, Spain, Thailand, and Uruguay

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