Work Experience
Cooperative 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.
The benefits of Cooperative Work Experience are:
Employers
- Improves employer/employee communications through objective evaluations.
- Assists with the development of goals through learning objectives.
- Assists in training of personnel.
Employee/Student
- Relates education to real work.
- Provides opportunity for job improvement.
- Increases potential to advance.
- Opens the way to continued higher education possibilities.
College/Community
- Promotes better relations between college/community.
- Broadens college curriculum.
- Helps meet training needs in the community.
Cooperative Work Experience
There are two types of cooperative work experience: general and occupational. (Title 5 Section 55252)
General Work Experience
General Work Experience Education is supervised employment which is intended to assist students in acquiring desirable work habits, attitudes and career awareness. This type of work experience does not need to be directly related to the student’s educational goals.
Students can earn up to four units of General Work Experience per semester and up to six units overall.
Interested students should enroll in WKEXP 97 – General Work Experience and select 1, 2, 3, or 4 units of credit. The course may be taken repeatedly until the six-unit maximum is reached.
Occupational Work Experience
Occupational Work Experience Education is supervised employment extending classroom based occupational learning at an on-the-job learning station relating to the student’s educational or occupational goal.
Occupational Work Experience Requirements:
- Student must be employed or volunteering in a job which directly relates to their college major or career goal.
- There are three interrelated limits on units.
- Student can earn up to four (4) units of Occupational Work Experience per area each semester.
- Students can earn up to eight units of Occupational Work Experience overall each semester.
- Students can earn up to sixteen total units of Cooperative Work Experience.
- Occupational Work Experience courses may be repeated, subject to the limits above.
- Student must become engaged in a new or expanded responsibilities on the job.
- Employer must provide reasonable assurance that the student will be properly supervised and evaluated.
Course Units Paid Work Non-Paid Volunteer
1 Unit 75 hours/semester 60 hours/semester
2 Units 150 hours/semester 120 hours/semester
3 Units 225 hours/semester 180 hours/semester
4 Units 300 hours/semester 240 hours/semester
A total of 12 units
of cooperative work experience
may be transferred to the state university system as electives.
Course |
Units | Faculty Advisor | Location | Phone | Email Address |
AT 97 | 1,2,3,4 | Peter Northrop | Madrone 1 | 588-5159 |
northropp@yosemite.edu |
BUSAD 97 | 1,2,3,4 | Randy Barton | Buckeye 2 | 588-5217 |
bartonr@yosemite.edu |
CHILD 97 | 1,2,3,4 | Adrienne Seegers | Laurel 114 | 588-5275 |
seegersa@yosemite.edu |
EMS 97 | 1,2,3,4 | Michael Keegan | Oak 8 | 588-5186 |
keeganm@yosemite.edu |
FIRE 97 |
1,2,3,4 |
Shane Warner | Public Safety Ctr 126 | 588-5308 |
warners@yosemite.edu |
FNR 97 | 1,2,3,4 | TBD | Sugar Pine 118 | TBD | TBD |
HPMGT 97 |
1,2,3,4 |
Don Dickinson |
Juniper 3 |
588-5135 |
dickinsond@yosemite.edu |
TAID 97 |
1,2,3,4 |
Adrienne Seegers |
Laurel 114 |
588-5275 |
seegersa@yosemite.edu |
WT 97 |
1,2,3,4 |
Jesse Ray |
Mahogany |
588-5365 |
rayj@yosemite.edu |
WKEXP 97 | 1,2,3,4 | TBD | TBD | TBD | TBD |
Required Documents
Columbia College Cooperative Work Experience Student Handbook
Cooperative Work Experience Application/Training Agreement
Cooperative Work Experience Student Contract
Cooperative Work Experience Learning Objectives
Cooperative Work Experience Time Summary Report
Cooperative Work Experience Record of Employer Visitation
Cooperative Work Experience Mid-Semester Evaluation
Cooperative Work Experience Final Semester Evaluation
Cooperative Work Experience Final Assignment