Students may pursue up to six hours of internship credit working in the arts community. These internship credits are cr/ncr. They do not count toward the major or minor, but they do count toward overall graduation credit requirements. Academic credit for internships is arranged through the career center and is awarded at the 200-level.

For details about how to file for academic credit, click here.

For internship guidelines from the Career Center, click here.

For the Internship Learning Agreement form, which must be submitted with all applications for internship academic credit, click here.

Students wishing to participate in the Kemper Museum Teaching in the Galleries Program may apply to receive one credit of internship credit for this semester long program. For more details about this opportunity, click here.

There are also opportunities to receive both paid and unpaid internships at museums and galleries in St Louis and beyond. For example, The Saint Louis Art Museum offers positions in their curatorial, registrarial, and education departments. These jobs often revolve around a special exhibition, but can also involve working with an institution's permanent collection. Recently, students have interned at Sotheby's Auction House, the Saint Louis Toy Museum, and the Cloisters at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. Annelise Madsen, another major who studied abroad in Toulouse, had the opportunity to organize an art exhibition at the university's American student center in conjunction with a major exhibition at Le Musée des Augustins.

For guidance on how to find an internship and prepare a successful application (including developing your CV), consult the Internships Page of the Career Center website.

For a list of local, national, and international museums that offer paid and unpaid internship opportunities for undergraduates, click here.

For additional information about internships for majors and minors in Art History and Archaeology, contact Professor Alicia Walker, Internship Coordinator, awwalker@wustl.edu.