Student Opportunities
Take advantage of all your undergraduate experience has to offer both inside and outside the classroom. Internships, research, clubs and organizations, and more will not only expand your understanding of American culture, but your social circles as well.
Find the Perfect Opportunity
Internships & Research
- Secure an internship through the Washington College Starr Center for the Study of the American Experience.
- Arrange your own internship experience through your own connections, or by tapping into the Center for Career Development’s extensive network.
- Take the American Studies Seminar, a course focused on how to develop and execute research papers. Specific topics and reading vary year to year, but the course aims to review the history of American studies as a field—particularly focusing on its origins at Yale University and the nationalist consolidations made by the program at Harvard University. Majors are allowed to take the course twice, and are encouraged to take it before completing their Senior Capstone Experience.
- Complete a Senior Capstone Experience (SCE), a year-long independent research project in the form of a thesis on any topic relating to American culture.
- Create your own research project. Support, financial or otherwise, is available across campus, including through the Hodson Collaborative Research Program or the Cater Society for Junior Fellows.
To get started thinking about what research you might be able to do at Washington College, review our faculty’s areas of expertise.
Get Involved
Build your résumé and expand your social circle simultaneously by joining clubs, honor societies, and more that help you connect with folks with similar interests.
- Hodson Collaborative Research Program
- Libby and Douglass Cater Society of Junior Fellows
- Phi Beta Kappa
- Clubs: Film Club, History Society, Book Club