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Work Experience Education is a cooperative program which combines relevant work experience with related instruction and enables students to acquire the knowledge, skills and attitudes necessary to enter and/or progress in a chosen occupation. 

Benefits of Work Experience

Employee/Student

  • Relates education to real work.
  • Provides opportunity for job improvement.
  • Increases potential to advance.
  • Opens the way to continued higher education possibilities.

Employers

  • Improves employer/employee communications through objective evaluations.
  • Assists with the development of goals through learning objectives.
  • Assists in training of personnel.

College/Community

  • Promotes better relations between college/community.
  • Broadens college curriculum.
  • Helps meet training needs in the community.

Types of Work Experience

There are two types of work experience:  general and occupational (Title 5 Section 55252).

 

Occupational Work Experience Contacts

 

required Documents for work Experience

 

work Experience Units

Course Units Paid Work
1 Unit 54 hours/semester
2 Units 108 hours/semester
3 Units 162 hours/semester
4 Units 216 hours/semester

A total of 12 units of work experience may be transferred to the state university system as electives.