Students wishing to apply for course credit through the University of Dallas Office of Personal Career Development have several options:
This internship will be completed to strengthen the students individual experience and apply key classroom learning in a real world occupational setting. The internship experience will elevate a simple work experience as the student reflects and looks for deeper meaning and strives to personally contribute. The student will earn credit based on the students documentation of his/her internship experience, observations, and results informed by their employment experience.
Registration due by May 31, 2019 (late registrations may be accepted on case-by-case basis). Schedule a meeting with an OPCD advisor to finalize your registration via Handshake.
Students interning abroad must also complete this form to register.
Registration due by September 6, 2019 (late registrations may be accepted on case-by-case basis). Schedule a meeting with an OPCD advisor to finalize your registration via Handshake.
Students interning abroad must also complete this form to register.
Begistration due by May 31, 2019 (late registrations may be accepted on case-by-case basis). Schedule a meeting with an OPCD advisor to finalize your registration via Handshake.
Community volunteer services will integrate meaningful community service with reflection to enrich the students learning experience, teach civic responsibility, and strengthen communities. The student will earn credit based on combined organization participation and the students documentation of his/her service experience, observations, and results.
This course is only offered in the spring. This course begins the week after Spring Break.
This course will enable the student to develop techniques and strategies for identifying fields of interest, personal branding, and conducting an effective job search. Emphasis is placed on personal discernment and identification of skills, interests, and values. The student will engage in the assessing of marketable skills, researching the market place, building a personal brand and developing a network of contacts, writing resumes, cover letters, and other standard means of correspondence used in the job search process. The student will engage in professional interviewing with the goal of achieving selection as an intern or employee at their chosen organization(s).
The university mourns the passing of Professor Emeritus of Chemistry Jack Towne, Ph.D. (April 23, 1927 - July 8, 2019), who passed away in his Irving home at age 92. He had a long, celebrated career in education, culminating in his roles at UD.
+ Read MoreJuly 1 marked an era of new beginnings at the University of Dallas as Thomas S. Hibbs, Ph.D., BA '82 MA '83, stepped into the limelight as the university’s ninth and first alumnus president. And his early morning arrival on UD’s Irving campus denoted a full-circle homecoming for the former Holy Trinity seminarian.
+ Read MoreOn July 9, President Thomas S. Hibbs, Ph.D., BA '82 MA '83, along with Alex and Martha Galbraith, parents of alumna Alison Galbraith, BA '12, signed the C.W. Eaker Scholarship Fund for Chemistry/Biochemistry at UD. The endowed scholarship is the first to be received by Hibbs since his presidency began on July 1; it honors longtime and much-loved chemistry professor C.W. Eaker, Ph.D., who served UD with distinction for over 40 years, first as a faculty member, then as dean of Constantin College and finally as provost of the university.
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