ASU Local is a national student success program through Arizona State University, America’s #1 University for Innovation, where students earn bachelor’s degrees while staying rooted in their community. Each term, students complete experiential learning projects in Upskilling courses where they have the opportunity to explore career paths, build portfolios, and collaborate with professionals in the community.

Students at the Los Angeles, CA and Yuma, AZ sites will be embarking on a remote, micro-internship project in collaboration with an employer partner. Each site will have about 25 students with varying majors, skill sets, and industry expertise. Students will each complete 8 hours of work from January 13th to February 24th 2025.

Students come from a diverse range of professional backgrounds and majors, which offers your business the possibility of tackling a challenge from multiple different angles, and gaining competitive insights.

Majors include:

• Mass Communication and Media Studies
• Business (Sports Business)
• Business (Global Logistics Management)
• Business (Business Administration)
• Organizational Leadership (Project Management)
• Project Management
• Biological Sciences
• Software Engineering
• Information Technology
• Graphic Information Technology (Full-Stack Web Development)
• Political Science
• Community Advocacy and Social Policy
• Psychology
• Criminology and Criminal Justice
• Sociology
• International Relations
• Film (Film and Media Studies)
• Educational Studies (Early Childhood Studies)
• Health Sciences (Healthy Lifestyles and Fitness Science) 
• Pharmacology & Toxicology

Students will deliver all content and material worked on in class, which could take the form of a series of social media posts or other content, feedback on a product, or any other deliverables discussed.