(1-2 credits) The Independent Study in Community Service is created and supervised by Maitripa College Faculty. They are of two types: instructional and oversight.

  1. Oversight by Maitripa College faculty. Student proposes to participate in an external course or learning activity of scholarly merit with relevance to degree curricula, the learning objectives of which are reviewed, supplemented, and assessed by College faculty.
  2. Instructional Independent Study with Faculty Member. Student(s) propose to study a topic with a faculty member who has expertise in the field and/or capacity to instruct, mentor, and support the pedagogical needs of a student seeking credit for curricula-relevant work for which there is no catalog offering.