Independent Course Registration

Students may request to work independently on a course with an instructor. This may happen in one of two ways:

1. Course by Special Arrangement – A student may request to take one of the college’s regularly scheduled courses during a term when it is not being offered; or
2. Independent Study – A student request to take an independent study course, which is not a regularly scheduled course, but is planned for and supervised by an instructor in conjunction with the goals that are proposed by the student, and then refined and approved by the supervising instructor.

The Independent Course Proposal form is available in the Registrar’s Office. It is the student’s responsibility to find an instructor willing to teach the course. The proposal must provide a rationale for why the student cannot meet this requirement with a regularly scheduled course. The completed form, with all required signatures, must be submitted to the Registrar’s Office along with a syllabus for the course and a completed registration or schedule adjustment form.