Independent Study

In Independent Study, students work closely with a faculty mentor to design their own course of study and dive deeply into a topic about which they are passionate. This fall semester ten students went beyond our core curriculum in pursuit of a wide variety of topics including 3D-printed textiles, auxetic structures, environmental justice, creative writing and family narratives, fine woodworking & joinery, French literature, functional programming in Haskell, topology in mathematics, Galois and fundamental groups, Spanish politics and the impact of colonialism, storms as a literary theme, and sorting algorithms and their speeds.