A Graduate Independent Study (IS) is intended to advance a graduate student’s academic progress. The study should help the student build knowledge and/or develop skills necessary for their degree or ...

The Department encourages students to consider an independent study when they have a clear topic of interest to pursue and there are no courses being offered that treat the subject matter. Prior to ...

Independent Studies include those opportunities outside of the regular curriculum in which a student is working closely with a faculty advisor to focus on a specific academic or theoretical area of ...

As a rule, independent study courses can only be taken in Spanish and Portuguese when there is no counterpart to the regular offerings of the Department and when a faculty member and the Chair of the ...