{"id":1040,"date":"2013-03-18T13:07:07","date_gmt":"2013-03-18T18:07:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/english\/?page_id=1040"},"modified":"2023-06-07T08:17:54","modified_gmt":"2023-06-07T13:17:54","slug":"independent-studyindependent-research","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/english\/independent-studyindependent-research\/","title":{"rendered":"Independent Study\/Independent Research"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-modular-content-collection><p>English Department Guidelines for Independent Study (IS) and Independent Research (IR)<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>To undertake an IS or IR, students must be a junior or senior and have completed at least 7 courses in the major or have completed, as a non-major, 7 courses in CIS.<\/li>\n<li>An IS cannot count toward one of the three required courses at Level II; An IR cannot count for one of a student&#8217;s two Level III requirements.<\/li>\n<li>The proposal should present a project that&#8217;s not covered by an existing course at St. Olaf; the project should not be one-on-one coaching to replace participation in an advanced workshop or seminar.<\/li>\n<li>A student asking for an IS or IR must develop a reading list as extensive as what we expect in a regularly offered course, along with writing assignments and a schedule of meetings. These materials should be submitted to a prospective supervising faculty member.<\/li>\n<li>If the student obtains a faculty supervisor, the student must submit to the English department faculty (via our AAA, Lynda Maus, or the department chair) a detailed plan that would include the reading list, writing assignments, schedule of meetings, and rationale for why this IS or IR should be approved, along with the faculty supervisor&#8217;s signature. This detailed plan must be approved by the department in advance of registration; approval will take up to seven days.<\/li>\n<li>Please bring the completed application for: Independent Study\/Independent Research form that can be obtained at the Registrar&#8217;s office.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.stolaf.edu\/offices\/registrar\/forms.html\">https:\/\/www.stolaf.edu\/offices\/registrar\/forms.html<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong>Note: proposals turned in after registration will not be acted upon.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!-- begin-migrated-from-panel-builder --><!-- end-migrated-from-panel-builder --><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>English Department Guidelines for Independent Study (IS) and Independent Research (IR) To undertake an IS or IR, students must be a junior or senior and have completed at least 7 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1040","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1040","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1040"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1040\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4042,"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1040\/revisions\/4042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}