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PUBLIC HISTORY INTERNSHIP PROGRAM
Guide to the Program
Internships
- Result in academic credit.
- Are professionally supervised.
- Relate classroom learning and actual work
- Typically involve one-time work experiences.
- Occasionally provide financial compensation.
- Are approved, coordinated, and evaluated by students' academic departments.
Benefits of Internships
There is much to be gained by both students and agencies that participate in the BSU Department of History's Public History Internship Program.
Students participating in an internship can
- Confirm their choice of academic major and explore and refine their career objectives.
- Learn essential job-search skills that can help them in the future.
- Gain valuable work experience that improves their prospects for employment after graduation.
- Acquire greater independence, confidence, and maturity as they are challenged in the workplace.
- Earn academic credit while becoming familiar with how history is practiced in a public, non-academic setting.
Agencies who train history interns realize multiple benefits. These organizations
- Profit from their student's fresh ideas, energy, enthusiasm, and knowledge of the history discipline.
- Gain an enhanced awareness of state-of-the-art curriculum content and disciplinary trends.
- Develop working relationships with university faculty and enjoy access to their institutional resources.
- Have proven candidates with on-site training and work experience to consider for permanent employment when entry-level openings become available.
Internship programs represent an ideal partnership between the academic and professional public history communities. This partnership gives students an education that is both theoretical and practical while enabling them to gain paraprofessional experience through serving the needs of history agencies and organizations.
