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The 3-6 credit student internship, which is a key component of the Master of Science in Sports Science degree, allows students to integrate their coursework in a practical setting. The internship is designed to have students develop competencies related to exercise/physical activity program design for various individuals; this includes competencies related to assessment, program design, and program modification.

Each student will be under the immediate supervision of a person(s) employed by the external affiliation. A supervisor from Â鶹¹ÙÍø will be assigned to the student. It is the job of the Â鶹¹ÙÍø supervisor to be the coordinator of the student's experience, to ensure that the student and the external affiliation are meeting the requirements of the internship. The Â鶹¹ÙÍø supervisor, the person who issues the final grade for internship, will visit the student three times at the internship site during the internship.

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Possible internship sites include:

• Health/physical fitness centers: These are facilities that are usually opened to the general public and have a variety of programs available for their client membership.
• Sports performance facilities: These are facilities that are usually opened to the general public, including recreational, high school, college, and other elite-level athletes/athletic or sports teams that focus on improving fitness related to sports performance and injury risk reduction. These facilities emphasize sports conditioning with a number of different populations – children, youth, high-school students, healthy adults, and professional athletes.
• Worksite health facilities/corporate fitness centers: These are facilities that are only open to employees of a specific corporation.
• Physical and occupational therapy facilities and programs
• Nutrition: Corporate and personal consultation
• Strength and conditioning: These are sites, primarily in University settings, that focus on preparing college or professional athletes for a given sport through strength and conditioning approaches.
• Cardiac rehabilitation programs: These are programs designed for individuals who have had cardiac events and who are engaged in efforts to decrease their risk for future heart attacks/events and improve their functional ability.