Opportunities

Portland offers a tremendous number of great opportunities for field learning, in all sorts of areas--media production, advertising, public relations, human resources, public opinion research, and a lot more. Academic credit is awarded for supervised internships, and almost all Communication students participate in one or more such activities. Contact Peter Christenson (peterc@lclark.edu) for more details about Communication department internships.

Here's a sampling of some of the student internships over the last few years:

• NIKE, Inc., marketing
• Portland Visitors Association, public relations
• The Portland Oregonian newspaper
• KGW-TV, television production, news reporting
• Various television and radio stations (various jobs)
• Oregon Student Public Interest Research Group, environmental communication
• Graphic Arts Publishing Co., magazine production and layout
• Azumano Travel, international travel agency
• Riverplace Hotel, sales and marketing
• MTV/VH-1, marketing and production
• Portland Trailblazers, events planning
• Burnside Records, independent music production
• Artists for a Hate-Free America
• Waggoner Edstrom, public relations and advertising
• Oregon Public Broadcasting
• The Salvation Army
• William Temple House (non-profit counseling and social services center)