Museum Studies Internship

This course allows a student to gain actual work experience in a museum, archive, or historic site operation. Internships must be approved by the program director in consultation with the student. Course requirements include a minimum of 45 hours on site for the term taken, a journal describing activities performed, an interpretative paper describing what the student learned about the organization, AND an analytic research paper on a aspect of museum studies, as appropriate to the particular internship experience, approved by the program director. The course may be taken as DEPT 490 in the student's major or minor department under the guidance of a departmental faculty, but must still include the research paper as described above.