Work Experience Courses
Earn transfer-level elective units while you work or volunteer! All types of jobs count—on campus, off campus, and anywhere in between**. Learn valuable real-world skills while earning units; it’s a win for you and your employers. Maintain fulltime student status while balancing school, work, and home life. Each unit of credit requires 54 hours.
Registration Note: When registering for a work experience course, please look to the course comments to determine the unit value for the section. To see the course comments at a glance, please use the Guest Search feature when searching the schedule.
| Courses | Units Offered |
| WORK-40: General Work Experience (Merced and Los Banos sections) | 1-6 units |
| AGAS-24: Work Experience in Animal Science | 1-4 units |
| ALLH-24: Work Experience in Allied Health | 1-4 units |
| CLDV-24: Work Experience in Child Development | 1-4 units |
| HMSV-24: Work Experience in Human Services (Merced and Los Banos sections) | 1-4 units |
| AGEH-24: Work Experience in Landscape Horticulture | 2-3 units |
| EDUC-24: Work Experience in Liberal Studies | 1-4 units |
| KINE-24: Work Experience in Kinesiology | 1 unit option |
| NUTR-24: Work Experience in Nutrition | 1-2 units |
| RADT-24: Work Experience in Radiologic Technology (Students must be in the RADT program.) | 1-2 units |
| CRIM-24: Work Experience in Criminal Justice | 1-6 units |
| REGN-03: Work Experience in Registered Nursing (Students must be in the Registered Nursing program.) | 1-2 units |
Once the semester has started, you can email the professor to register for a course. When emailing to add, please indicate where you work, an average number of hours worked each week, and the number of units interested in obtaining. You may also email workexperience@mccd.edu to inquire about enrollment.