# Cooperative Education
**Source**: https://catalog.northeastern.edu/course-descriptions/cop/
**Parent**: https://catalog.northeastern.edu/course-descriptions/
**COP 3940. Personal and Career Development. (3 Hours)**
Offers students an opportunity to use co-op experience along with this course to clarify their vision of a successful professional and personal future and identify goals to create that vision; identify strengths, weaknesses, and communication and conflict-management preferences; design a career action plan; and develop and practice articulating professional goals, personal brand, and knowledge and experience gained from co-op. Encourages students to engage in a combination of introspection, critical reflection on experiences in the workplace, and with online collaborative learning and group behavior; learn to identify and analyze career and personal development opportunities in the external environment; and practice communication, relationship-building, conflict management, and leadership skills. This companion course to an internship or co-op requires permission of the CPS Office of Cooperative Education.
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**COP 3944. Co-op Work Experience - Half-Time. (0 Hours)**
Offers students an opportunity to engage in work experience that relates to their academic field of study. May be repeated up to four times.
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**COP 3945. Co-op Work Experience—Full Time. (0 Hours)**
Offers students an opportunity to engage in work experience that relates to their field of study. May be repeated without limit.
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**COP 4946. Global Co-op Work Experience - Full Time. (0 Hours)**
Offers students an opportunity to engage in a global work experience that relates to their field of study. May be repeated without limit.
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**COP 5002. Internship. (0 Hours)**
Enables students to engage in an internship to gain practical experience relating to their field of study. May be repeated up to two times.
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**COP 6945. Co-op Work Experience—Full Time. (0 Hours)**
Offers students an opportunity to engage in work experience that relates to their field of study. May be repeated without limit.
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**COP 6946. Global Co-op Work Experience—Full Time. (0 Hours)**
Offers students an opportunity to engage in a global work experience that relates to their field of study. May be repeated without limit.
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