Honors Humanities: UMD & Beyond

Students can enroll in our internship course, HHUM328 for 1-3 credits. An internship with Honors Humanities offers an opportunity to contribute to our program in various ways, including:

• Organizing our annual symposium.
• Creating and curating content for our social media accounts.
• Serving as our program photographer.

Students can also complete a 3-credit Teaching Assistantship for HHUM105 or HHUM106.

Students are also able to intern elsewhere on campus. Here are just a few of the on-campus internships our students have worked:

Teaching Assistantships & Research Opportunities:

• Sociology
• Criminology
• Economics
• Clinical & Cognitive Neuroscience Lab
• Digital Mishnah Project
• Laboratory of Molecular & Thermodynamic Modeling
• Neurocognitive & Development Research Lab

Internships, Courses, & Staff Positions:

• The Diamondback
• The Writing Center
• Applied Physics Labortory
• Music Department
• Family Involvement Laboratory
• Student Legal Aid Office
• Multicultural Involvement and Community Advocacy
• Office of Donor Relations
• Office of Transformational Learning (R.H. Smith)
• PBS39 Production Intern

Many students choose an off-campus internship. Here are several examples of internship experiences our students have had:

Arts & Advocacy

• Folger Shakespeare Library 
• The Kennedy Center
• The Phillips Collection
• Shakespeare Theater Company
• Soccer without Borders
• Thiru Criminal Justice Campaign
• Fair-Vote in Takoma Park
• Center for Public Accountability

Government, Politics, and Law

• Environmental Protection Agency
• Department of State
• Rich Madaleno for Governor
• Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton of D.C. 
• Federal Reserve Board
• U.S. Securities & Exchange Commission
• Aruna Miller for Congress
• Federal Reserve Board
• Department of Justice Pathways Student Paralegal
• Maryland Legal Aid Bureau
• Chief Justice of the Baltimore City Circuit
• State Attorney's Office in Howard County

Media, Design & Communication

• PBS39 Production Internship
• Kaiser Associate Strategic Communication
• Summer Taillight TV
• Nircle
• McClatchy Newspapers, Washington D.C. Bureau
• The Daily Record Baltimore

Medicine, Health, Science & Engineering

• National Cancer Institute 
• Center for Autism Research at Children’s Hospital in Philadelphia
• Glenn L. Martin Wind Tunnel
• Zachariah Chemical Engineering Lab
• John Hopkins Applied Physics Lab
• American Meteorology Society

Our students have participated in study abroad programs across the world. Here are just a few of many incredible opportunities to travel and study abroad:

• Global Service Abroad in the Dominican Republic
• Political Science in Reims, France
• Public Health Without Borders in Peru
• Public Health & Family Science in Cuba
• UMD Summer Abroad in Spain (Salamanca and Barcelona)
• Spring Break Abroad in Paris
• Pembroke-King's Programme at University of Cambridge
• Intercollegiate Center for Classical Studies in Rome
• London and the History of the British Empire
• Critical Languages Scholarship Program in Suzhou, China
• Rabat, Morocco
• Maryland in Montpellier
• Sociology Exchange Program, University of Surrey in England
• Landscape Architecture and Music in Italy
• Jagiellonian University Summer School of Language and Culture in Kraków, Poland
• Maryland Social Entrepreneur Corps (MSEC), Dominican Republic
• Taiwan-US Scholarship Alliance
• Beijing Language and Culture University
• Documentary Photography, Oaxaca, Mexico
• Salzburg Academy on Media and Global Change
• Senegal
• Tanzania
• London School of Economic and Political Science

Our students are often also members of other academic, artistic, and professional communities on campus, including:

• Jiménez-Porter Writers' House
• Language House Immersion Program
• Global Fellows
• Federal Fellows