Duration
200h Internship
Number of credits
| Master in history, research focus | 10 crédits |
Lecturer
Language(s) of instruction
French language
Organisation and examination
All year long
Schedule
Units courses prerequisite and corequisite
Prerequisite or corequisite units are presented within each program
Learning unit contents
The Research focus internship aims to provide students with their first professional experience in the field of history.
It lasts approximately 200 hours, to be completed between the spring of the first year of the master's program and the end of April of the second year, according to the terms defined in an agreement signed by the student, the internship supervisor, the supervising professor, and the chair of the master's program jury.
The location of the internship, in Belgium or abroad, is left to the student's choice but must be approved by the supervising professor and the chair of the master's jury. It may be an archive, a library, the office of a history journal, a research laboratory, a museum, or any other heritage institution.
Examples of tasks that may be assigned to the intern include:
- preparing scientific events
- participating in the editorial activity of a journal or any other scientific publication
- compiling files
- encoding/processing data
- archiving
- writing meeting minutes, etc.
Learning outcomes of the learning unit
Enable students to:
- become familiar with the world of research by spending 200 hours working as a research assistant in an academic or scientific setting, at a heritage conservation institution (archives/library), or on an excavation site;
- put their skills as historians into practice within a research team or scientific office, and acquire some practical technical and professional skills;
- develop their interpersonal skills.
Prerequisite knowledge and skills
The various theoretical and practical courses taken during the bachelor's and master's degrees have provided students with a range of skills that will be put to practical use during their internships.
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
Activities will be defined with the internship supervisor and will be included in the agreement, which will be drawn up by mutual agreement between the internship supervisor and the advisor (a permanent academic or scientific member of the program), then approved by the internship coordinator (the chair of the Master's jury): see below.
Mode of delivery (face to face, distance learning, hybrid learning)
Face-to-face course
Further information:
In the case of an internship, "in person" means actual and regular attendance at the internship location, in accordance with the terms and conditions to be set out in an agreement.
Course materials and recommended or required readings
Platform(s) used for course materials:
- eCampus
Further information:
The various useful documents are available on the eCampus platform.
Exam(s) in session
Any session
- In-person
oral exam
Written work / report
Further information:
At the end of the internship, each student must submit a detailed written report (maximum 10 pages) to their internship supervisor, following the outline below. It will be assessed by their internship supervisor based on a criteria grid, and the general conclusions will be communicated to them. The supervisor is free to decide whether or not to provide the intern with a copy of the full report. This assessment by the supervisor will account for 50% of the final grade.
Each student will also be assessed by a panel of teaching and research staff from the department. At the end of June of the M2 year (single session), the intern will have 20 minutes to give an oral presentation of their internship, based on 1) their written report and 2) a PowerPoint presentation. These two documents will be sent in PDF format to the chair of the Master's jury for archiving no later than the day before. This will be followed by 10 minutes of questions and answers. This meeting with the jury will count for 50% of the final grade.
The internship report and oral presentation should cover the following aspects of the internship:
- Motivation(s) for choosing the internship location and presentation of the institution (including the professional contact details of the internship supervisor);
- Degree of involvement and quality of integration into the team at the internship location (participation in team activities, relationships with colleagues, level of autonomy, etc.);
- Internship objectives and concrete description of the tasks assigned (including any discrepancy between the planned tasks and those actually performed);
- Personal reflection on the contributions and shortcomings of training as a historian in a professional context;
- Contributions/impact of the internship and/or work produced during the internship for other historians and/or a wider audience (promotion of unpublished sources, better understanding of a historical event, etc.);
- What you learned from the internship for your future professional life;
- The most positive aspects of the experience and any difficulties encountered;
- Additional comments (optional).
Use of AI
All academic writing must be personal and original. At the end of your work, you must ensure that it is not the product of any artificial intelligence software and declare any use of such tools for language improvement purposes (i.e., exclusively spelling and grammar correction; translation). You will be required to demonstrate your mastery of your own writing in an oral assessment. Any false or incomplete declaration will be considered fraud and punished as such.
Work placement(s)
200 hours, as described in this educational commitment.
Organisational remarks and main changes to the course
- Students will choose the type of internship they wish to undertake in consultation with their advisor (a permanent academic or scientific member of the program).
- Before mid-April of their first year, students will send a letter of application/motivation and a CV to their potential internship supervisor(s).
- The activities will be defined with the internship supervisor and will be included in the agreement, which will be drawn up by mutual agreement between the internship supervisor and the advisor, then approved by the coordinator = jury president.
- The internship may begin as soon as the agreement is signed and must end no later than April 30 of the M2 year.
Contacts
Coordinator - Chair of the History Master's jury: Catherine Lanneau (C.Lanneau@uliege.be).