PVA Internships
Music Business and Graphic Design majors, are you ready for real-world experience that expands your knowledge and sets you up for success when you enter the job market? Our PVA Internships process will take you right where you need to be! As you follow the steps below, you will enter a field-based learning experience that aligns with your plan of study.
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Preparation
Complete these steps when you are a sophomore or incoming transfer student.
Step 1: Internship Info Quiz
Read over this entire internship page and take the quiz below.
Step 2: Meet with Faculty
Meet with a faculty member to talk about internships.
- Music Business & Recording Arts students (contact the following faculty members)
- Dr. Sarah Off- sarah.off@unco.edu [Music Business students]
- Dr. Socrates Garcia- socrates.garcia@unco.edu[Recording Arts students]
- Graphic design students
- Mark Fetkewicz, MFA- mark.fetkewicz@unco.edu
- Theatre Management Interns
- Dr. Rand Harmon- randall.harmon@unco.edu
Contact the Center for Arts Entrepreneurship for Career Related Needs:arts.entrepreneurship@unco.edu
Application
Complete these steps in the semester prior to your internship.
STEP 1
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Search Handshake for Opportunities tagged as PVA Internship & view our PVA Internship List.
STEP 2
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Meet with faculty member(s) for guidance and approval (see names above in the step 2 preparation area).
STEP 3
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Once you are hired with an employer, email your faculty member(s) about the job opportunity to receive approval. Be sure to cc your employer in the email so that everyone is aware of the conversation.
STEP 4
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Notify/Email your academic advisor of your internship acceptance. Then, register for your Internship Credits during registration for the following semester.
- Music students: MUS 392
- Art students: ART 492
- Please note: Graphic Design students cannot sign up for ART 492 until they have the release form, located in the ART 492 Internship Packet, signed by the faculty advisor.
- Theatre Management Internship students: THEA 398/498
Internship Coordinators
SARAH
OFF
Violin/Music Business
Associate Professor of Music
Frasier 252
(970) 351-3173
Sarah.Off@unco.edu
SOCRATES GARCIA
Director of Music Technology
Professor of Music
Frasier 89
(970) 351-1356
Socrates.Garcia@unco.edu
RAND
HARMON
Associate Professor of Theatre Studies & Arts Entrepreneurship
Frasier 102
(970) 351-2931
Rand.Harmon@unco.edu
Internship Highlights
Through a partnership with the National Repertory Orchestra, UNC Music Business Students have the opportunity to learn and work with one of the nation's premier summer music festivals.
"Partnering with the NRO is extremely exciting. UNCO and I have a lot of admiration for the NRO because of what they have done, the opportunities that they have given students across the United States and the world. Their artistic presence within the community and theirintegrity in the music industry is incredible. To have the honor and the pleasure of this partnership is pretty cool." —Dr. Sarah Off
Past Internship Partners
- Budweiser Events
- Adidas
- HP
- Quiksilver
- National Repertory Theatre
- YMCA
- Cosmopolitan Magazine
- Athena Project
- The Music District
- Greeley Philharmonic Orchestra
- Central City Opera
- Union Colony Civic Center
- 7S MGMT
