Students Pursue Independent Studies

Grinnellians bring their interests into the classroom, using assignments to study the things they are most interested in. But when they can’t otherwise fit a topic into their curriculum, they turn to guided reading (200-level) and independent study (300-level) coursework to explore it further.

Students in guided readings and independent studies design an independent project and work closely with a faculty directory. The courses might include things like reading of a body of literature, reproducing published scientific experiments, learning advanced techniques, or exploring an art.

Some topics being pursued Fall 2013 include:

• Voices from Cairo
• Interdisciplinary Studies of Wine
• The Philosophy of Science in Education
• The History of Myanmar
• Hellenistic Ethics
• Poisson-Dirac Brackets
• Modern Board Game Design
• Advanced Web Application Development — Local Foods
• Gender in Malaysian National Identity
• Food Sources
• Dido and Aeneas in 17th Century Politics
• Anomalous Magnetism