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Independent Study Projects

Create a personalized learning experience with a topic of your choice and assignments or projects designed in collaboration with faculty.

Personalize Your Studies

Are you interested in learning about a topic related to politics or government that we do not offer a course on? Do you want to dive deeper into a topic you learned about in a previous course? Do you want to work with a faculty member on their research, or do your own research project? All of these can be done through independent study projects.

Here is a sample of recent independent study projects completed by law and justice and political science students:

  • Anayce C. explored critical legal studies, focusing on residential segregation
  • Brandon B. researched punk and metal music as a form of political thought
  • Calebphin N. analyzed U.S. educational policy in an advanced honors thesis
  • James M. examined the law’s treatment of minority groups in the United States
  • Jenna G. explored feminist theories of the law in relation to reproductive rights
  • Lily A. researched the history of Puerto Rican women’s political activism
  • Mike K. investigated the political role of the Zimbabwe defense forces
  • Peculiar J. examined the causes of the gender gap in politics in an advanced honors thesis
  • Victor D. explored the threat to the United States posed by biological terrorism

Independent study projects are designed in collaboration with a faculty member who will help guide you through the process.

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