Cooperative Education is a college program designed to extend occupational
learning experiences for the student through supervised employment in
an occupation of interest to them. Employment may be on or off campus.
Cooperative Education is available in all academic and vocational areas.
To obtain Cooperative Education credit:
- The student must
- have a 2.0 overall grade point average
- be officially certificate or degree seeking
- have completed a minimum of 12 credit hours of college credit (with a minimum of 6 credits at FKCC)
- be enrolled in no fewer than 6 credit
hours, including Cooperative Education.
- To begin the process, the student must meet with his/her Program
Advisor (or Instructor, in the case of an Associate in Arts Degree
seeking student) who will serve as his/her Cooperative Education Sponsor.
(A.A. Degree students are responsible for finding an instructor willing
to serve as the Cooperative Education Sponsor.) The student and Sponsor
will discuss obtaining academic credit through Cooperative Education
at his/her job site, including consideration of the nature of the work
to be done and the relevance of the work experience to the student’s
career goals, number of credits to be applied for, required hours of
work, time frame, and reporting and supervision.
- The student must submit to his/her Sponsor a completed
- Application for Cooperative Education/Cooperative Education Learning Agreement and
- Independent Study Request Form. Cooperative Education credit
is given as XXX (subject prefix) 2940. Seventy-five (75) employment/supervision
hours equal one credit. Cooperative Education may be repeated for
a maximum of six credits, which may be used toward the completion
of the student’s
degree. In the A.A. Degree, Cooperative Education credits may be
used as electives only. In an A.S. Degree, depending on the actual
degree curriculum, specific use of Cooperative Education credits
will be at the discretion of the Program Advisor.
- Once the above forms are approved, the student will attend regularly scheduled supervision meetings with his/her Cooperative Education Sponsor. As with any course, a letter grade will be assigned at the end of the term in which Cooperative Education takes place.