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Get Involved with Zoology: beyond the lecture hall

  • Build your resume
  • Explore your interests in various aspects of zoology
  • Learn more about what it's like to do work in zoology
  • Build skills, gain valuable experience, and network with professionals
  • Share your passion with others
  • Integrate your academic learning with your professional goals and everyday life
  • Maybe even earn credit or money while you're at it!

Document it!

Make a Career Portfolio.

A lot happens in college... Make sure you keep tabs on it all!
    (example)


  1. Directed Study/Research
  2. Internships
  3. Volunteering
  4. Student Work
  5. Student Organizations
  6. Undergraduate/Peer Teaching Aide
    • Some upper-division lab classes in the biosciences look for successful and interested students to be resources in the classroom. Some examples include: Zoology 430, Zoology 504, Physiology 335. While taking the course, check with your instructor about helping out in future terms for course credit (usually 698 - Directed Study).

  7. Service Learning

  8. Study Abroad
  9. Summer Field Courses:  Organization of Biological Field Stations (search same list for internships/contact researchers to get involved in a project while you're there)

  10. Alternative Breaks

  11. Informational Interviewing/Shadowing
  12. Career Fairs

Are you wondering "What about the money or credit you mentioned earlier?" 
For unpaid positions, possible funding sources can be found at:

Credit

  • Talk to a faculty member in a related area about receiving credit through course number 699.
    Dr. Stanley Dodson facilitates most "credit related to internship" arrangements within the Department of Zoology.  Find out more by viewing his Info Packet.


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