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Both history internships and urban history courses that offer place-based learning experiences provide students with an introduction to the role that historical scholarship can play in the everyday life of a community. Basic research about the built environment can have real-world applications that benefit individuals and organizations. Helping students connect intellectual pursuits with practical needs is one of the central goals of a liberal arts education. At the same time, place-based learning gives students a unique opportunity to experience the “messiness” of problem solving and to begin to understand the benefits of uncertainty as part of the process of both learning and social change.
Thomas C. Henthorn (Sat,) studied this question.