This course offers student-directed, hands-on experience and service in a Public History work environment of the student’s choosing, in consultation with the faculty sponsor/instructor. Each credit hour earned requires 60 hours of logged, on-duty work, along with requirements of regular journals and written reports. The internship is monitored and evaluated by a faculty sponsor, in partnership with the supervising representative of the business, agency, or organization. Maximum 3 credit hours of HIST 498 are applicable to the major program in History. Up to three (3) additional credit hours are applicable as electives to the baccalaureate degree. Prerequisite: must have six credit hours of History to be eligible, as well as the explicit consent of a faculty instructor. Summer/Fall/Spring as needed.