Student Opportunities
Through the humanities major, learn how to approach concepts from multiple perspectives, incorporating different areas of context. Once you know how different people think, you understand other peoples’ approaches to argument, making you a better and more effective communicator.
Find the Perfect Opportunity
Internships & Research
- Apply the skills and thought processes you’ve learned to a wide range of internships, gaining real work experience while testing out fields to pursue after graduation.
- Arrange your own internship experience through your own connections, or by tapping into the Center for Career Development’s extensive network.
- Complete a Senior Capstone Experience (SCE), a year-long independent research project in the form of a thesis.
- 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
- Honor Societies for some affiliated departments, such as Sigma Tau Delta (English), Phi Alpha Theta (history), Phi Sigma Tau (philosophy), and others.
- Clubs: Art + Art History Club, The Pegasus Digital Yearbook, Photography Club, Radio Free George, Collegian (literary magazine), The Elm (newspaper), Writers' Union, African Student Union, Black Student Union, Cleopatra Sisters, EROS (Encouraging Respect of Sexuality), French Culture Club, German Club, Intercultural Ambassadors, LatinX Students Association, SAGE (Supporting All Gender Experience), Spanish Club