Program: The OSA Internship Program is offered as a work based learning real world experience to offer students a transformative opportunity to work in the arts, media, and entertainment professional environments. Working with pathway specific industry professionals who will also serve as mentors, students will develop written, verbal, or nonverbal communication skills in a variety of forms and contexts to convey meaning through the production, performance, presentation, and/or exhibition of works of art through active practice, rehearsal, and/or creation, time management and collaboration skills, all of which is essential for success in both higher education and the arts, media, and entertainment workforce. 

Purpose: Through internship opportunities students will develop a strong foundation for post secondary education and future career endeavors. The course will span one academic year, divided into two semesters, in semester one students will attend capstone classes that will offer backwards mapping for career exploration, that includes; career research, mock interviews, job shadowing,  post secondary best supports: college research 4year, 2 year trade schools.  

Outcome: Our program aims to equip students with the knowledge, skills, and experiences necessary to succeed in their future academic and career endeavors through strengthening the students: 

 

African American Museum and Library at Oakland

Alameda Publishing Corporation

California State University, East Bay

Cape and Cowl Comics

Flatline Productions

Joyce Gordon Gallery