Internship Program

The History Department’s Service Learning Internship Program is one of only six service learning credit opportunities on the OU Norman campus. The program’s mission is to provide History majors with hands-on experience analyzing, organizing, preserving and/or presenting history for and to the public.

We place undergraduate interns at local historical organizations and agencies every spring, summer and fall semester. We are proud to coordinate with our site sponsors at organizations such as the Oklahoma City National Memorial and Museum, the Oklahoma Historical Society, the Oklahoma Department of Libraries and on-campus opportunities with Bizzell Memorial Library.

All History interns make significant contributions to local public history. Previous students have:

· Organized the papers of Oklahoma City Police Chief Ed Hall
·  Assisted with preparations for and carrying out the annual Remembrance Ceremony at the Oklahoma City National Memorial and Museum
· Digitized Native American Dawes Act records and case files
· Created digital humanities projects at the Digital Scholarship Lab
· Learned how to clean, preserve and digitize film negatives
· Prepared special collections of rare primary materials at Bizzell for History class visits

Students who are interested in earning credit for an internship should click here.