The History Department offers its students credits for internships.
HISTORY 488: INTERNSHIP
Participation in local, state, and national public and private agencies and organizations. Students will be required to submit written progress reports and a final written report on their experience to the faculty sponsor and the department. Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory grading ONLY. May be repeated up to a limit of 12 credits. PREREQUISITES: 15 credits in history; permission of instructor, department, and Office of Undergraduate Studies.
To find an internship look at Stony Brook’s Career Center website for museum/history internships. Three credit on-campus internships are offered through NYPIRG. They also offer 12 credit internships in Albany.
Majors have two opportunites to conduct individual historical research through History 447: Independent Research, History 487: Supervised Research or through the Senior Honors Program.
Honors Project Application
Application for Independent Study
History 487: Supervised Research
Qualified advanced undergraduates may carry out individual research projects under the direct supervision of a faculty member. May be repeated.
Prerequisites: Permission of instructor and either department or departmental URECA coordinator.
Application for Supervised Research
Senior Honors Program
Departmental majors with a 3.0 average in history courses and related disciplines as specified in the major requirements are eligible to enroll in the history honors program at the beginning of their senior year. The student, after asking a faculty member to be a sponsor, must submit a proposal to the department indicating the merit of the planned research. The supervising faculty member must also submit a statement supporting the student’s proposal. This must be done in the semester prior to the beginning to the project. The honors paper resulting from a student’s research is read by two historians and a member of another department, as arranged by the director of undergraduate studies. If the paper is judged to be of unusual merit and the student’s record warrants such a determination, the department recommends honors.
Past Presentations at the Undergraduate History Research Conference
Wednesday, June 17th, 2009
The Undergraduate Studies Committee has added a section called “Writing Resources” to the Undergraduate page of this website. The link will bring you to a useful list of errors to avoid and also a directory of helpful websites. Pay a visit and let us know what you think.
Friday, January 11th, 2008
An advanced survey of American history from Reconstruction to the present. This is a reading-intensive course designed to familiarize the student with most major issues of this period, with special emphasis on the intersection of politics and society. Assignments will average over 300 pages per week of core readings. In addition, each student will deliver at least two presentation over the course of the semester on books of her or his choosing in consultation with the instructor. A final, interpretive essay is also required. For MA and PhD Students only.