Students interested in designing a Global Independent Study Project (GLISP), Group Independent Study Project (GISP), Independent Study Project (ISP), or Internship for credit (Academic Internship or AI) can receive assistance from the student coordinators at the CRC / OIP! The student coordinators sit on the selection subcommittees of the College Curriculum Council.

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Coordinators & members of the College Curriculum Council:

• Ruth Foster '19, Parker Zane '21, Group Independent Studies Project (GISP), Independent Studies Project (ISP), and Academic Internship (AI) Co-Coordinators

• Makedah Hughes '19, Global Independent Studies Project (GLISP) Coordinator

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Makedah, Ruth, and Parker coordinated information sessions and materials for students interested in designing an independent study; they also held open hours and made appointments with students to support the proposal writing process. All served on the College Curriculum Council's subcommittees to review and approve proposals for the following semester.

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Makedah split her time between staffing at the CRC and at the Office of International Programs. Parker and Ruth maintained an online database of past (G)ISP proposals, and Parker began forging a closer working relationship with Dr. Christina Smith at the Sheridan Center in order to begin collaborating on support for GISPs.

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Read about the Hyperreality Design GISP featured in a Brown News piece about innovation and the arts. 

 

From the students' Hyperreality Design GISP evaluation:

"We brought a range of experiences and viewpoints related to Computer Science along with a passion for Virtual Reality that largely contributed to exciting group meetings. We enjoyed working with each other and bonded over the semester. There was much to be learned from observing how each GISP member approached both technicals and ‘soft-skills’, particularly as it related to managing projects of considerable size."

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CCC-approved, student-designed independent studies / Faculty Sponsors:

Fall 2018

Aquinas and the Fathers (GISP), Susan Harvey

Blackness in China (GLISP), Rebecca Nedostop

Cross-Cultural Approaches to Death and Dying (GISP), Jason Protass

Impacts of Public School Programs in Brazil (GLISP), Richard Snyder

Literature and Society in Central Asia (GLISP), Shahzad Bashir

Lysander Dickerman and American Egyptology (ISP), Laurel Bestock

Mind the Gap: Diversity, Inclusion, and Cross-Cultural Competency in Contemplative Studies (ISP), Andre Willis

Norwegian I (GISP), Arnold Weinstein

Parisian Photography (GLISP), Douglas Nickel

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Spring 2019

Catholic Social Thought (GISP), Timothy Flanigan

Community Activism in Rio de Janeiro (GLISP), Nicholas Barnes & James Green

Connecting the Dots: Mental Illness, the Media, and Social Change (AI), Debbie Weinstein

Critical University Studies (GISP), Nic Ramos

Dance TV (GISP), Michelle Bach-Coulibaly

Diversity and Children's Literacy (AI), James Egan

Dvorak, Composing a Better Keyboard (GISP), Jeff Huang & James Tompkins

East Asian Maritime Studies (AI), Kerry Smith

Education and Decarceration in Rhode Island (AI), Kevin Escudero

Environmental Policy and Economic Growth in the EU (GLISP), Oded Galor

EQUiSat Research (GISP), Rick Fleeter

Free Design, Vocal Counterpoint, and Post-Tonal Inspiration (ISP), Ivan Tan

Gender and Sexuality in the Ancient Near East (GISP), Sara Mohr

Hyperreality Design (GISP), Ali Momeni

Mysticism in Russian Orthodox Theology (GLISP), Michal Oklot

Neurocriminology and the Psychology of Criminal Behavior (GISP), Brian Hayden

Neurosurgical Outcomes (AI), Elizabeth Chen

Norwegian II (GISP), Jane Sokolosky

Nuclear Families (GISP), Patricia Ybarra

Paleolimnology (GLISP), James Russell

Perspectives in Intersectional Reproductive Health (GISP), Sarah Fox

Production and Dissemination of Russian Biological Research (GLISP), Anne Hart

Russian Independent Cultural Spaces in Theory and Practice (GLISP), Fabrizio Fenghi

Queering the Archive (GLISP), Sawako Nakayasu 

Songs and the City: Popular 20th and 21st Century Music in Paris (GLISP), Mark Seto

Vietnamese Queerness in Paris (GLISP), Samuel Perry

Where Technology Meets the Built Environment (GISP), Dietrich Neumann

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