The Brooklyn College archives will serve as the student's laboratory. Preparing for, conducting, and transcribing oral history interviews. Reviewing legal and ethical issues. Analyzing the relationship between history and memory Studying the use of life-history narratives in print, film, television, radio, exhibitions, performance, community history projects, and educational institutions, including school classrooms. Students must take one community-focused course, selected from the list below, which must be in a department other than their major.
Subject matter is related to the general focus of the internships - the study of local community.
For course descriptions, see the current Brooklyn College Undergraduate Bulletin. I and 78.2 Internships in Public History I and II Nine hours of fieldwork per week. Applied training in such areas of public history as archival and museum management, mounting historical exhibits, and collection classification. To be pursued in conjunction with an institution outside the college under the supervision.of a faculty member from the History Department. Students will chronicle their field experience.