Special Courses

A 19x/29x/39x/49x Special Topics course designation indicates courses that are new or that may only be offered one semester. Designed to take advantage of visiting professors or special cultural events, as well as permitting faculty latitude to experiment with a new course.

Excursions are available in all disciplines.

Excursions enable students to experience and understand issues in a more sophisticated and critical way. Excursions require a minimum of 15 hours of academic commitment in and out of the classroom per credit hour. Topics vary, and may include Willa Cather’s Prairie (Red Cloud, NE), Mark Twain in Hannibal (Hannibal, MO), The World War I Museum (Kansas City, MO), The Nelson Atkins Museum of Art (Kansas City, MO), Walden Woods (Lincoln, MA), and Sophia Smith Collection (Northampton, MA).

Internships are available in all disciplines.

An internship is a supervised work/learning experience that is related to a student’s major or area of career interest. It is supervised by a faculty member and an internship site supervisor and offers course credit. Bachelor’s students will be allowed to earn 12 credits during their college experience. To be eligible to participate, a student must have first-year, secondsemester or second-year (or higher) standing by the beginning of the internship and have a 2.00 cumulative GPA or higher. Pass/Fail

Independent Study is available in all disciplines.

Under the auspices of a faculty member, a second-year (or higher) student with a cumulative GPA of 3.0 or higher may receive academic credit for pursuing on an individual basis, a topic or project related to, but beyond the scope of, regular course offerings. Curriculum Committee approval required. No more than three hours of Independent Study counts toward graduation, nor may more than one such course be taken in the same semester. May not be used to meet general education requirements.