Internship – HIST 799
CG • Section 8WK • 07/01/2018 to 12/31/2199 • Modified 02/01/2024
Course Description
This course provides an opportunity for students to attain real world experience working on tasks specific to their discipline.
For information regarding prerequisites for this course, please refer to the Academic Course Catalog.
Rationale
This internship requires 175 hours of work in a historical field. It is intended to give students hands on opportunities to practice their craft in a field related to their study and vocational aspirations. Historical internships can give students opportunities with fields such as public history, archival work, library and reference work, professional research/writing, archaeology, national park service, and educational institutions.
Course Assignment
Textbook readings and lecture presentations
Course Requirements Checklist
After reading the Course Syllabus and Student Expectations, the student will complete the related checklist found in Course Overview.
Internship Assessment Assignment
The student will write a 2-3-page Internship Assessment paper according to the Turabian Notes-Bibliography style. This assignment gives the student a chance to consider their internship in perspective. They will describe the location, goals, duties, and setting of the internship and they will focus on how the location was chosen, how it will serve their future vocational aspirations, and advance their Christian worldview.
Log and Update Assignments (4)
Throughout the course, the student must submit 4 Log and Update Assignments. Each submission must contain a brief written overview of the work or research completed over the previous period of the internship. This overview should not exceed 1 paragraph. In addition, the student must submit a work log of all the hours completed over the previous period as well. This log must be signed by the student’s internship supervisor. By the end of the internship, the student will log at least 175 hours in service to his or her intern location/organization.
Publication Project Assignment
Students will find ten academic, history journals/sources and summarize the rules for publishing in these academic journals. Students should include at least five of the ten that allow for doctoral student publication.
Book Synopsis Assignment
After reading the assigned chapters in the course textbook, students will complete this assignment in two parts: Chapter Annotation and Historical Methodology.
Networking Reflection Assignment
Students will identify, attend, and reflect on one historical networking opportunity throughout the course of the internship class. The locations for these can vary and will often include regional or national historical society meetings. Special exceptions must be approved by the professor.
Final Paper Assignment
The student will write an 8–10-page Final Paper according to the Turabian Notes-Bibliography style that can be completed in a number of different ways. The paper can be a research paper springing from the student’s internship work/research. Alternatively, it can be a detailed reflection on the student’s overall experience throughout the internship. For either of these 2 options, the student must discuss how the experience has shaped his/her perspective on historical methodology and modern approaches to historical research.
Supervisors Evaluation Assignment
Students will provide their supervisor with a template for their evaluation during the course of their internship. This evaluation will then be provided to the professor for the students grade/evaluation.
