The Corporate Communication degree requires a 3-credit Internship that is typically taken during the last semester of study. This internship helps students to put into practice what they have learned in the classroom in a corporate, professional environment. The Internship Coordinator and Penn State Wilkes-Barre Career Services will help students with locating and securing internship placements with Northeast Pennsylvania businesses and organizations in order to provide them with real-world job experience.

This internship is critical to developing important professional and interpersonal skills. In particular, the ten personal qualities that employers seek in new college graduates according to the National Associate of College and Employers (NACE) are:

  1. Communication Skills
  2. Motivation/Initiative
  3. Teamwork Skills
  4. Leadership Skills
  5. Academic Achievement
  6. Interpersonal Skills 
  1. Flexibility/Adaptability
  2. Technical Skills
  3. Honesty/Integrity
  4. (tie) Work Ethic
  5. (tie) Analytical/Problem-Solving Skills