Registrar

Academic Policies

Independent Study

Independent study and directed study courses are intended for students in their junior and senior years. Juniors or seniors wanting to take such courses must use the following procedure:

  1. Obtain permission to enroll from the instructor of their choice. Consult the instructor prior to the course request period of registration for the semester in which the study is to be undertaken.
  2. Register for the course through the appropriate department.
  3. Make a written study plan detailing the nature of the project and the amount of credit and have it approved by the instructor and the department chair (or the chair’s designee) by the tenth day after classes begin.

Students who have not met these requirements are reported on the tenth-day enrollment report as “registered but not attending” and are dropped from the course.

Students may not repeat independent study or directed study courses for grade replacement. Independent study courses in other schools approved by the College Curriculum Committee may be taken for credit if the project is approved by the Committee on Individual Programs.

--quoted from the 2006/2007 Undergraduate Catalog, p. 157

 

» The Contract for Registration in Independent/Directed Study Courses form.