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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!
- Directed Study/Research
- Internships
- Volunteering
- Student Work
- Student Organizations
- 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).
- Service
Learning
- Study Abroad
- 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)
- Alternative Breaks
- Informational Interviewing/Shadowing
- 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.
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