Student Opportunities
Practicum Opportunities
To help prepare you for your career in psychology, we encourage you to do an internship to practice what you learn in the classroom. Getting involved will grow and develop your skills beyond the classroom and prepare you for the future. The School of Education provides several options. These options range from local organizations to those across the country and across the globe.
Some psychology practicum opportunities include:
- Women's Center of East Texas
- Longview Crisis Counseling Pregnancy Center
- Gregg County Juvenile Detention Center
- Children's Protective Services
- Social Security Office
- Windridge Equestrian Therapy Center
- Heartlight Group Home
- Meadow Pines Psychiatric Hospital
- Pine Tree Elementary and Junior High School
- Respite Group Home
- Kilgore Crisis Counseling Hotline
- Sabine Valley Services
- East Texas Council on Alcoholism and Drug Abuse
- Gregg County Attorney General's Office
- Kidsview
- Junior Achievement
Study Abroad
Off-Campus Study Programs
- Best Semester
- BestSemester provides off-campus study programs through the Council for Christian Colleges & Universities (CCCU). LeTourneau University, a member of the CCCU, offers these programs as semester-long academic experiences.
- Culture-crossing programs are:
- Culture-shaping programs are:
- American Studies Program (Washington, D.C.)
- Contemporary Music Center (Martha’s Vineyard, Mass.)
- Los Angeles Film Studies Center (L.A., Calif.)
- Washington Journalism Center (Washington, D.C.)
Focus on the Family Institute
A division of Focus on the Family, the Focus on the Family Institute is a one-semester undergraduate study program designed to challenge students to impact their world for Christ.From around the world, 88 students are selected to earn fifteen units of credit for the following five classes:
- Family, Church, and Society Studies
- Family Life Studies
- Marriage Studies
- Practicum
- Christian Worldview Studies
