HIST 196JC: JOURNAL INTERNSHIP

University of California, Santa Barbara

Through this year-long internship, students work under faculty direction to produce an issue of the UCSB History Department?s Undergraduate Journal. S tudents meet every two weeks and gain practical experience in scholarly pub lishing disseminating calls for papers, soliciting undergraduate contributi ons, locating peer reviewers, facilitating revisions with authors, and bibl iographic and copywriting work. Students also gain a working knowledge of t he UCSB Library?s online publication platform, which hosts the journal. Stu dents utilize various digital humanities tools - podcasts, social media, we bsites - to promote the undergraduate research being published in Journal a s well as host an annual showcase of scholars? work.