Independent Studies
Natural Sciences Departmental Policy on Student Designed Independent Studies (SDIS)
Most courses in the natural sciences have an essential laboratory component which must, for safety reasons, be done in a classroom or laboratory setting. For this reason, student designed independent study in these disciplines is rare and takes place only under the following conditions:
- The student must have completed at least one science course at Metropolitan State with a grade of B or above.
- The student must be an admitted Metropolitan State student.
- The SDIS proposal must be approved by the department head before the student registers.
- The SDIS instructor must be a member of Natural Sciences Department faculty, resident or community; or hold a PhD in the discipline and have collegiate experience teaching the subject and be approved by the department head.
Note also that:
- An SDIS cannot be used to meet the General Education Goal III Natural Science requirement.
- Students are reminded that an SDIS is intended to be truly independent study and not a tutorial.
