• Part time Jobs
• Volunteer Opportunities
• Junior Level Internships
• Senior Year Internships
• Career Counseling and job placement upon graduation
• Alumni Relations and on-going assistance for graduates
• Other hospitality industry and community projects.
• High School Mentoring Programs

Junior Year Internships

 Hotel  Work Experience Internship

During the junior year of the HTM curriculum, students will enroll in the HTM 398 course. Students will receive an overview of the internship requirements which includes a checklist of many tasks to complete during their time at the hotel.  There are several structures to chose from and these may also be customized according to property and student needs. Some companies will rotate students around the key departments. Others will base them in one area and the student is assigned time to shadow or work in other departments as business allows. The students complete all the required forms and have several tasks assigned. This is deliberately kept the responsibly of the student so as not to put a burden on the employer.

The minimum time the student should be employed is for 300 hours, typically 20 hours per week over the course of a fifteen week semester. However, many students chose to work for a lot longer than the 300 hours. Most are employed during their entire junior year benefiting the hotel with a motivated employee and providing the student with a true work experience. During summer, students may be able to work full-time and they may also complete their internship anywhere in the world as long as the experience is relevant to the curriculum. Disneyland and Disneyworld also have internship programs which will satisfy these requirements and actively recruit each semester on campus. More details are available at www.disneycollegeprogram.com.

All internships are paid at a rate agreed upon by the student and the employer and the student is hired as a regular employee would be. Employers wishing to hire a student in a part-time work experience may contact Brian Blake at bblake@projects.sdsu.edu or call 619-594-4454.

Students must attend a mandatory meeting with the SCPD director the semester PRIOR to enrolling in the class. Dates & times of these presentations will be posted and e-mailed out during the first few weeks of every semester. To be able to enroll in the class students must be signed into the major and have completed all lower division classes along with HTM 301 which is a required class prerequisite.

Restaurant  Work Experience Internship

As above but restaurant emphasis students may complete their junior year internship in a restaurant where they will be tasking with a similar check list as above oriented towards restaurant operations.

Casino Work Experience Internship

As above but tribal gaming emphasis students may complete their junior level internship in a casino.