Program Overview

The UCI History Internship program is now in its sixth year.

The internship is structured as a four-unit course offered every fall quarter. Participating students learn to “do history” by working with professionals who work as public historians in settings other than the formal classroom.

“Doing history” does not mean memorizing past events but involves research, critical reading, analysis, and presentation of material. This internship program allows students to “do history” in public settings and in dialog with public audiences. It will improve students’ abilities to research and analyze historical questions and then to communicate them effectively in oral, visual, and written forms.

Students will select an internship from several partners with which the History Department collaborates.  They will each work in this partner institution with professional historians who may be archivists, researchers, project advisers, or exhibit curators.  They will also participate in weekly on-campus workshops, where they will interact with their peer group to reflect on the kinds of histories being produced in their internship experience and thereby to deepen their understanding of historical analysis and modes of historical presentation.

Prerequisites: Students must be a declared history major with junior or senior standing.

Course meetings in Winter 2021 will be Mondays, 12:00 – 12:50 pm.

Contact Professor Vinayak Chaturvedi or Undergraduate Program Coordinator Michelle Spivey if you have questions about the program.

Interested? Applications for Winter 2021 will be available in Fall 2020.

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