PRACTICUM GUIDELINES

The UCLA MIAS program offers enrolled students the possibility of working in a moving image archive setting as part of its Practicum program (MIAS 498). Students are eligible for a practicum once they have completed their first year of residence in the MIAS program.

Student works with their faculty advisors to develop learning objectives and a contract for deliverables as part of the practicum. Students may select from a list of pre-existing practicum opportunities, or may develop an experience with a site supervisor and their faculty advisor. Practica may be paid, or unpaid.

Full guidelines for MIAS 498 - Practicum in Moving Image Archive Studies.

Practica are only available to students currently enrolled in the MIAS Program. Please contact Lance Watsky for further information. At present, MIAS practica are available at the following institutions:

• UCLA Film and Television Archive
  • Exhibition
  • Access
  • Preservation
  • Cataloging
  • Television
• Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Film Archive
• Getty Research Center
• MBRS Branch of the Library of Congress
• Human Studies Film Archive at the Smithsonian
• Il Cinema Ritrovato, Bologna
• Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions
• Sony Pictures Entertainment
• UCLA Oral History Program
• UCLA Department of Ethnomusicology
• Visual Communications
• Women in Film Foundation
• Chinese Film Archive, Taipei
• Producers Library Service
• Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions

Past practica have been at the Getty Research Institute, the Smithsonian, the Library of Congress, the UCLA Film & Television Archive, and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences.