There are many opportunities for students to work with faculty members on research projects and through internships.  Here are a few areas in which students may want to pursue these opportunities:

• Spring break field course to Southwestern American Indian communities
• Summer archeological field school in western North Carolina or elsewhere in the Eastern United States
• Summer ethnographic field school in the Ecuadorian Amazon
• Summer ethnographic field school in Appalachia
• Internship field school in Honduras
• Internships with a variety of service agencies and archeological projects, e.g. Appalachian Voices (environment); High Country Amigos (hispanics); Laboratories of Archeological Science; Sustainable Communities Coordinator; Legal Services of the Blue Ridge; Watauga Medical Center Forensic Pathology Lab; Hunger Coalition; Appalachian Cultural Museum; Student Action with Farmworkers, English as a Second Language, etc.