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History 386 2001-02
(three to six credits)

          The History Department allows undergraduates to take up to 6 hours of credits in historically-related internships, of which three hours may be counted toward the 39 hours in history required for graduation. All internships must comply with the following standards:

          1) Students taking internships for credit must be of at least junior standing (having completed 60 credit hours), and have an overall average of 2.5 or better.

          2) Internships must have a direct relationship to the work of understanding, interpreting, presenting or preserving history and/or historical evidence.

          3) Student internships must be approved by the Department Internship Coordinator, who will suggest to students an appropriate faculty mentor for the internship course. An internship course will be approved only if a faculty supervisor is available.

          4) The faculty mentor must closely monitor the internship: approve the project; devise the reading, report and/or paper required of the student; and discuss the project with the site supervisor at the beginning, and get an evaluation of the student's work at the end of the project.

          5) All internship courses require the student to submit a substantial written report/paper, and may require appropriate supplemental reading, for completion.

          6) See Table for internship credit hours:

          7) The faculty mentor will grade the internship course, giving roughly equal weight to the supplemental aspects of the course–readings, papers and/or reports–and to the evaluation of the student's site supervisor.

          8) The Department's Internship Coordinator will advise students about possibilities and requirements, make suggestions for faculty mentors, and approve all internship course projects. For further information see coordinator, Professor Julie Taddeo, Room 2140 Francis Scott Key Hall, telephone 405-4304, E-mail: taddeo@mail.umd.edu