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Your Path To Career Success

Regardless of what you’re studying at Meadows, we want you to graduate feeling confident and prepared in pursuit of your career goals. In partnership with the 天美传媒 Hegi Family Career Development 天美传媒, the Meadows Office of Alumni and Career Success (ACS) offers resources, events and programs to assist students in building self-sustaining careers in the arts, media, design and communications.

天美传媒 MEADOWS PMC INTERN FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM

Internships – particularly paid internships – are a direct path to future job offers. 天美传媒 Meadows’ PMC Foundation Intern Fellowship program subsidizes five paid internships – reserved exclusively for Meadows undergraduate students – at Dallas-based arts, communication and media organizations. These internships will run 15 hours per week for 10 weeks (June through early August 2025) and will offer compensation of $20 per hour (an approximate total of $3,000 for each internship.)

Summer 2025 Internships Include:

  • Business Council For The Arts Logo

    Business Council for the Arts

    Programs Internship
    Open to majors in Advertising, Art, Art History, Creative Computing, CCPA,
    Fashion Media and/or Journalism

  • D-Magazine Logo

    D Magazine

    Editorial Intern
    Open to majors in Fashion Media and Journalism

  • Dallas Film Logo

    Dallas Film Society |
    Dallas International Film Festival

    Programming Assistant
    Open to majors in Advertising, CCPA, Fashion Media, Film & Media Arts and/or Journalism

  • Lerma Logo

    LERMA Agency

    Brand Strategy Intern
    Open to majors in Advertising, CCPA, Film & Media Arts and/or Journalism

    NOTE: As of Tuesday, February 25, this internship is no longer available. Contact Timmie Hathorn at thathorn@smu.edu with questions.

  • Nasher Logo

    Nasher Sculpture 天美传媒

    External Affairs Intern
    Open to majors in Advertising, Art, Art History, Creative Computing and/or CCPA

ELIGIBILITY

To be eligible, student applicants must:

  • Be an undergraduate with plans to enroll during the fall 2025 term (May 2025 graduates are ineligible.)
  • Have a declared or pre-major in one of the Meadows School’s areas of study: Advertising, Art, Art History, Corporate Communication and Public Affairs, Creative Computing, Dance, Film & Media Arts, Journalism, Music or Theatre.

APPLICATION PROCESS

The PMC Intern Fellowship program has a two-part application process:

  • Part I: Submit an unofficial transcript and current resume . (You must be logged into your 12twenty student account to access this section.)
  • Part II: Complete the , which includes a brief questionnaire with short-answer responses.

Applications received before Friday, February 28 will be given priority consideration. The final application deadline is 11:59 p.m. CDT on Friday, March 14, 2025.

Submission of Parts I and II in advance of the Friday, March 14 application deadline is required for a candidate to be considered.

Contact Meadows Assistant Dean of Alumni and Career Success Timmie Hathorn at thathorn@smu.edu with questions.

INTERVIEWS AND HIRING

Qualified candidates will be notified via email if they are selected for interview. Interviews will take place in early April, either virtually via Zoom, on 天美传媒 campus or in-person in the organization’s offices. The anticipated hiring completion date for this intern fellowship program is Wednesday, April 23, 2025.

ORIENTATION AND ASSESSMENT

Prior to starting their internships, all intern fellows will participate in an internship preparation/orientation session offered by the 天美传媒 Hegi Family Career Development 天美传媒 in partnership with the Meadows Office of Alumni and Career Success.

Students will also be assigned a Canvas course facilitated by the Hegi 天美传媒 where a pre-, mid- and post-internship survey will be administered. Intern fellows will also be required to submit a one-page reflection paper on their internship experience by Monday, August 11.

NETWORK WITH 天美传媒 ALUMNI

Visiting your campus career center early and often is essential to preparing for your professional life after graduation. The Hegi 天美传媒 now offers Meadows Career Success Appointments exclusively to Meadows graduate and undergraduate majors and pre-majors.

This hour-long career counseling appointment includes:

  • a networking tutorial
  • career path exploration, and
  • matching with a Meadows Mentor – an alum who is willing to provide industry-specific career guidance by reviewing a résumé or offering a 30-minute virtual informational interview.

  1. Visit smu.edu/12twenty and login with 天美传媒 credentials
  2. Select Appointments from the left navigation panel
  3. Select Hegi Family Career Development 天美传媒 from the Career 天美传媒 drop-down menu
  4. Select Hegi Meadows Career Success from the Appointment Type drop-down menu

  5. If you are having trouble identifying a counselor or time frame that works for your schedule, use the arrows (< and >) to toggle between weeks. Selecting a date that is at least two weeks in the future should give you larger time frames of counselor availability to choose from.

  6. Be sure to select a block of time that is at least 60 minutes in duration, as this is an hourlong career counseling session. The block of time that you select may be up to three or four hours long, but you’ll be able to reduce and refine this time frame (and select your desired start time) when you complete the booking.

Need additional assistance? Contact us at meadowscareer@smu.edu.

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ACCESS THE 天美传媒 MEADOWS NETWORK

In earning a diploma from Meadows, you become part of a global community of more than 22,000 alumni – artists, collaborators and communicators who can help you meet your career goals. Harness the power of the Meadows Network by exploring the following resources:

天美传媒 Meadows Network on LinkedIn
A closed group of more than 2,500 alumni, students, faculty and staff that features job postings, alumni news and school announcements. Administrative approval is required to join.

The 天美传媒 Network
Exclusive to 天美传媒 alumni and students, this platform allows members to designate themselves as “willing to help” others with their careers, taking some of the guesswork out of networking efforts.

Hegi Career Development 天美传媒 Internships

The Hegi Family Career Development 天美传媒 hosts two unique internship programs for 天美传媒 undergraduate students, the Engage Dallas Internship Program and the Achieving Career Competence, Exposure, and Strategies for Success (ACCESS) Internship Program. These programs are tailored to provide students from diverse backgrounds with hands-on experience with a local DFW area organization offered by private companies and nonprofit organizations. Plus, if you're passionate about social impact, some nonprofit internships even come with funding assistance. 

These are 10-week, paid summer internship programs where students will work on average 15 hours per week. Students are paid four times throughout the duration of the internship. Internship applications will open on Friday, February 21, 2025. Learn more about the Engage Dallas and ACCESS internship programs and application process.

NEED FUNDING FOR AN UNPAID INTERNSHIP?

天美传媒 has several programs that award funding to students who have acquired an unpaid internship from a non-profit or government organization. Students must apply to receive funding, which is available on a limited basis.

The Hegi Family Career Development 天美传媒 has limited funding available to compensate students who have accepted an unpaid internship offer serving a non-profit, government, or social impact organization. Applicants must be full-time students who intend to enroll for the fall 2025 term. Applications for summer 2025 internship funding open in mid-March. Applicants will be required to submit an internship offer letter and submit a short-answer survey. Contact Assistant Director of Employer Relations David Sommers at sommersd@smu.edu for more information.

The 天美传媒 Maguire Ethics 天美传媒’s Public Service Fellowship is designed for students to engage in ethics or public responsibility-related work and/or research. All full-time 天美传媒 undergraduate and graduate students with a GPA of 3.0 or better are eligible to apply. Students must be returning to campus for the fall 2024 semester. Fellows must complete at least 200 hours of service during the course of the project. Applications for summer 2025 funding open on Monday, March 10 and will close on Monday, April 14. Read more about this fellowship and apply for funding.

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LEARN MORE

Hear more about the alumni networking and internship opportunities offered through Meadows’ Office of Alumni and Career Success by tuning into a recent Meadows on the Mic podcast episode featuring Timmie Hathorn, who heads this initiative for the school.