Undergraduates in the U of U Department of City and Metropolitan Planning Department are all required to complete qualifying internships, usually with local planning agencies but also with consulting firms and nonprofits. A Qualifying Internship is one that gives you substantial professional experience in the built environment and planning fields such as urban and rural development, environmental planning, sustainable development, economic development, housing services, parks and recreation planning, land use planning and zoning, community organizing/development, and transportation planning. Professional experience means building upon one or more of the following skills: data collection or analysis for a planning project, plan/strategy development or implementation, permitting and zoning compliance checks, community engagement and outreach, project management, and planning communication (for e.g., creating posters/visuals for planning related projects, etc.). The internship should provide 144 hours of work experience, minus time spent in class

If you would be willing to consider an intern, paid or unpaid, please contact me directly. I would want you to give a half hour talk on planning careers, at which you pitched your internship. I would be given on-line using Zoom. There would be time for questions and answers. Thanks for considering this request.

Reid Ewing

Distinguished Professor of City and Metropolitan Planning

University of Utah

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