Internship/Field Experience Requirements
REC 168 Prerequisites:
- Be enrolled in or have taken REC 161.
- Contact your advisor and the Internship Coordinator to discuss your goals and objectives of this field experience and to identify potential sites and locations.
- Agency is an approved site by the Internship Coordinator.
- First Aid and CPR certified.
- Professional Liability Insurance (see Internship Coordinator for Application).
REC 238 Prerequisites:
- Maintenance of 2.25 cumulative, a 2.25 in all classes required of the major (C or better), and a 2.25 in all completed recreation classes (transcript verification).
- Completion of REC 161, 163, & 168.
- Application to the Major must be submitted and student must be accepted. Each semester the Internship Coordinator will set a deadline for application.
- Completion of 50 hours of paid or unpaid experiential work with people in leisure settings providing recreation and/or therapeutic recreation services.
- Agency is an approved site by the Internship Coordinator.
- First Aid and CPR certified.
- Professional Liability Insurance (see Internship Coordinator for Application).
REC 450 Prerequisites:
- Maintenance of 2.25 cumulative, a 2.25 in all classes required of the major (C or better), and a 2.25 in all completed recreation classes (transcript verification).
- Senior Status.
- Completion of 500 hours of paid or unpaid experiential work with people in leisure settings providing recreation/therapeutic recreation services in the previous 3 years.
- Application approval the semester before enrollment. Each semester the Internship Coordinator will set a deadline for application.
- Join one professional organization on the national, regional, or state level (verification provided).
- Placement at an approved agency site with a qualified supervisor. (TR students will follow NCTRC guidelines.)
- "Exchange of Service Agreement" and "Clinical Fieldwork Data" needs to be completed and signed before start of internship.
- First Aid and CPR certified.
- Professional Liability Insurance (see Internship Coordinator for Application).

