Work Experience Education provides applicable on-the-job experiences for students. Work Experience Education allows students to gain a deeper understanding of the relationships between classroom theory and practical application, be an active participant in an actual workplace, and improve their employment opportunities.

For satisfactory completion of Work Experience Education, the College will grant credit to the student in an amount not to exceed 14 units per enrollment term, with a maximum of 16 units during the student’s enrollment at the College.

WVMCCD offers Work Experience Education to students across many academic programs: 

• Work Experience Education is supervised employment intended to assist students in acquiring desirable work habits, attitudes, and career awareness where on-the-job learning relates to the student’s specific educational or occupational goal. These courses include occupational work experience and internships.
• Work Experience Education involves students' employment and/or internships selected, approved, and supervised by WVMCCD to provide meaningful experiences related to the course of study, or specific career pathway training, combined with instruction in critical workplace skills.
• Work Experience Education at WVMCCD may include paid or unpaid employment, full or part-time employment, and may be structured as separate credit or noncredit classes or integrated as a component of a course/program. It is integrated as part of a student's educational pathway allowing students to achieve both educational and occupational goals. It is intended to assist the student in developing career awareness, learning industry culture, competencies and norms, and developing professional networks in their desired field to support career mobility.

Each student participating in Work Experience Education is assigned to a faculty advisor who meets with the student and his/her employer to discuss, define, develop, and write measurable learning objectives in developing short- and long-range career goals. Work Experience Education units satisfy a portion of the requirements for a 2-year degree and are transferable to most of the state colleges. The Work Experience Education courses that the college offers can be found at Work Experience Courses