Postbaccalaureate Field Work Term

The Bennington postbac curriculum includes a seven-week winter internship program called Field Work Term. After summer and fall terms of in-class academics, students leave campus to work or volunteer in a myriad of settings. Bennington faculty, staff, and alumni will help students find a project and environment that allow them to test their in-class experience with the actual practice of science.

Postbac Field Work Term Sampler:

• Shadowing and working in clinical research at Washington University Medical Center
• Shadowing physicians and observing surgeries at Brattleboro Community Hospital
• AIDS clinic in Thailand
• Medical mission in Guatemala
• Research with Bennington faculty on specific projects including “The Chemistry of Gold Complexes” and “Synthesis and Properties of Luminescent Rhenium Complexes”
• Wilderness EMT course