Museum Education Internship

Catalog description

The internship component requires fieldwork hours in a museum and a bi-weekly seminar component. Internship structures include: (a) embedded within students’ current employment at a museum or educational site and would be unpaid due to their employment status, (b) graduate assistantship (limited quantity, competitive application) at the Barnes Foundation or the Maguire Art Museum, or (c) executive style internship over appropriate number of evenings or weekends. Additional requirement is attendance at synchronous online seminar classes to debrief and reflect on internship experiences.Seminar faculty oversees academic elements of course; onsite supervisor provides mentoring in practical components.