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POSITION
ANNOUNCEMENTS
Graduate Student Internship for Credit
(non-paid
position)
Undergraduate
Student Internship for Credit
(non-paid
position)
Duties and Responsibilities:
The graduate internship at Alabama Heritage is a unique
opportunity for UA graduate students in the humanities to immerse
themselves in the everyday experience of publishing a quarterly magazine.
Whether you have had prior experience in a magazine environment or
not, the graduate internship at Alabama Heritage presents an
opportunity to broaden your marketable skills as either an editor
or an academic.
Your daily responsibilities
will vary, depending mainly on where the magazine is in the production
cycle. Like the rest of the editorial staff, your main focus in the
proofing stage of the magazine will be copyediting and proofreading-over
and over again. In less intense periods, your focus will shift more
towards research and writing. You may be asked to research anything
from photograph rights to gravesites, and all points in between. You
will also be called upon to write a wide variety of text, up to and
including a feature-length article that will be considered for publication
in the magazine.
Excellent writing and
research skills are mandatory.
Interns will receive
three hours graduate credit for working ten hours per week during
the semester. Bring a letter of interest, current resume, list
of three references, and a writing sample of up to ten pages to
the Alabama
Heritage offices at 325 Hackberry Lane (across from the Campus
Drive parking deck). Internships begin in August, January, and May
of each year, and last approximately four months.
Undergraduate
Internship
Duties and Responsibilities:
The internship at Alabama Heritage is a unique opportunity
for UA students to learn the basics involved in publishing a quarterly
magazine. Upon completing an internship at Alabama Heritage,
students should be able to a) know whether a career in editing interests
them, and b) step into an entry-level editing position knowing what
will be expected of them.
An undergraduate
intern's daily responsibilities will vary, depending mainly on where
the magazine is in the production cycle. Like the rest of the editorial
staff, interns' main focus in the proofing stage of the magazine will
be copyediting and proofreading-over and over again. In less intense
periods, an intern's focus will shift more towards his or her research-of
a semester-long research project and/or various topics that crop up
from time to time. Interns may be asked to research anything from
photograph rights to gravesites, and all points in between.
Excellent writing
and research skills are mandatory.
Interns will receive
three hours undergraduate credit for working ten hours per week during
the semester. Bring a letter of interest, current resume, list of
three references, and a writing sample of up to ten pages to the Alabama
Heritage offices at 325
Hackberry Lane (across from the Campus Drive parking deck).
Internships begin in August, January, and May of each year, and last
approximately four months.
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