Colorado College will send a small delegation to the annual United Nations global climate conference COP28 in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, during block 4. Qualified students may submit applications to join a team of COP ethnographers, working through the broader Youth Environmental Alliance in Higher Education, the global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

An opportunity for students to engage in team-based, applied anthropological work on a focused project, this course is intended as a linked block that supports advanced coursework in such areas of study as human ecology, field archaeology, event ethnography or museum curatorial work. Sites for fieldwork will vary from year to year, ranging from the Rocky Mountain West and/or Southwest Regions to international settings. Incorporates such hands-on activities as participant observation, interviewing, networking, policy development, field data gathering, collections management, habitat or nutritional analysis, publication and dissemination, as well as training data analysis and presentation, rhetorical and organizational skills.