INTERNSHIPS

Department of History
Bloomsburg University

The Department of History at Bloomsburg University offers a well developed internship program that can provide students with on-the-job experience, as well as college credit.  Many of the sites recently visited by students even offer paid internships.

If you would like to acquire valuable professional experience, you should consider an internship in history.  The course under which you would enroll is entitled "Internship in History" (42.497).  Internships can be taken for up to twelve (12) hours of academic credit.  Three (3) of those credits can be applied to the "F" category in the departmental requirements (300/400 history electives).  Additional credit hours can be applied in the general elective slots on the curriculum guide.

A student may undertake an internship as early as his or her sophomore year.  Eligible students must be in good academic standing in the Department of History, and must have completed the course entitled "Research and Writing in History" (42.398).

Internships can involve part-time or full-time employment.  As a general rule, forty hours of leaning experience on the job serves to generate one academic internship credit.

Internship alone does not prepare one of a profession, but it can be an important, practical part of collegiate training.  Many interns are eventually hired by their sponsoring employers.  Others are hired through contacts made outside the internship site but during the internship experience.  But whatever the case, students who have had internships generally have better credentials and experience for the job market; they receive more promotions after they are hired; and they are more likely to be retained at their places of employment.  Through the hands-on experience of internship, students also learn how to effectively utilize the skills they have refined in their history program.

For the student who excels at research, analysis, organization, interpretation, and presentation of historical information, numerous internship opportunities exist.  Click on the link here to locate a list of internships in which Bloomsburg history students have been engaged in recent years. 

For further information on internships through the Department of History at Bloomsburg University, contact Nancy Gentile Ford, Professor of History, 570-389-4164.  She can also be contacted by e-mail: ford@bloomu.edu