Experiential Education
All Monmouth University undergraduates are required to complete the Experiential Education requirement. Under this program, students gain valuable professional experience by successfully completing at least one designated course in their major or minor fields, participating in a faculty-sponsored internship practicum, service learning or corporate project, or cooperative education placement, or through the study abroad program.
Students majoring in History and Education automatically fulfill the requirement when they do their student teaching, generally during their senior year. Other history and anthropology majors can complete the requirement by taking any of the following elective courses:
- AN 288 - Cooperative Education
- AN 311 - Anthropology/History Internship Seminar
- AN 315 - Field Research in Archaeology
- AN 388 - Cooperative Education
- AN 488 - Cooperative Education
- AN 489 - Field Study / Internship in Anthropology / Archaeology
- HS 288 - Cooperative Education
- HS 311 - History/Anthropology Internship Seminar
- HS 388 - Cooperative Education
- HS 488 - Cooperative Education
- HS 489 - Historical Internship
- a regularly offered course which has an experiential component such as Field Methods in Archaeology (HS/AN 315); or
- History
Although the requirements vary from course to course, students are generally required to spend a minimum of 120 hours at an internship site over the course of the semester, keep a journal of their experiences, and write a final paper describing their internship experience. A student may take up to XX courses for experiential education credit.
In the past, students have completed internships at the following locations:
- Gateway National Recreation Area-Sandy Hook Unit: www.nps.gov/gate/
- Gloucester County Parks-Anne Whitall House/Red Bank Battlefield
- Monmouth County Historical Association
- Monmouth County Park System: www.monmouthcountyparks.com/
- New Jersey State Museum: www.state.nj.us/state/museum/
- New Jersey State Parks—Allaire State Park and Twin Lights State Park: www.state.nj.us/dep/forestry/parknj/divhome.htm
- New Jersey Vietnam Era Educational Center: www.njvvmf.org
- University of Pennsylvania Museum of Anthropology and Archaeology: www.upenn.edu/museum/
