ARCH 315 - Archival Practicum

This internship/practicum is a field-based, supervised, professional learning experience that takes place in a special collections and archives repository located in an academic library for higher education. Students will obtain work experience while pursuing defined learning outcomes and have an opportunity to test theories and apply skills learned in other course work. This internship/practicum will provide necessary in-depth experience in the arrangement, preservation, and description of an archival collection as well as hands-on experience in a leading archival software. To qualify as an internship, students must complete 100 hours of course work: 45 hours to be completed during regularly scheduled meeting times and the additional 55 hours would be completed independently; but within the work hours of the repository. This course fulfills the internship requirement for the MA in History and Archival Studies.
Units: 4
Course Type: Practicum