Students petitioning for
If the project is approved by the DUS, the student will need to find a faculty sponsor within the department, who have a specialty in their area of interest.
The credit load for the internship/independent study should reflect the level of work agreed upon by the student and their sponsor. A reasonable culmination of a 2-credit internship/independent study would be a 10-page minimum paper and a pass/fail grade (the student must petition to take the study pass/fail with CAS Advising once they have registered). If the student wishes to do the internship/independent study for 4 credits, they must submit a syllabus for the course that contains 50-75 pages of reading per week as well as writing assignments totaling 20 pages. In addition, a faculty advisor must agree to meet with the student for c. two hours per week. The course will be letter graded.
In order to ensure that students are receiving an appropriate amount of instruction during the academic semester, we will not allow students to begin any internships or independent study credit work after the second week of classes.
Please submit your completed application for independent study to the Academic Administrator, Kayla Huang (kayla.huang@nyu.edu).