AI Application

Proposal Submission Deadline:
Fall 2011: April 8, 2011

Download the AI Application here.

Your proposal consists of a project description, which you should do in consultation with your faculty sponsor and the supervisor of the agency at which you are interning.  The description must include a bibliography, a week-by-week outline of work to be carried out at the agency over the 14 weeks of the semester, as well as the reading you will be completing each week a span of at least 14 weeks and an explanation of your project (i.e. answering who, what, when, why, and how.)

Applications are available online and at the Curricular Resource Center. Submit the proposal to Dean Ann Gaylin, 2nd Floor, University Hall.

Past Independent Studies topics included...

• "Psychogeography"

• "Modern Conservatism in America"

• "Supernatural Fiction"

• "History of the Mayans"

• "Robotics: Principles and Practice"

• "Children's Literature"

• "Permaculture"

• "Dances of Latin America"

• "Contemplative Science"

• "Neuroethics"

• "Modern Hebrew and Israeli Literature"

• "Building Challenge: Green Design for Sustainable Farms"

• "Health Care Planning with the Women and Infants Hospital"

• "Marketing Research with Dean Witter"

• "Teaching English as a Second Language at the MLK Elementary School"

• "Interning for the Rhode Island Supreme Court"