Independent Study

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During senior year, each student works with a faculty member to investigate a subject of the student’s choosing. Independent Study projects provide majors with the opportunity to examine a topic of special interest in great depth. They sometimes include fascinating research experiences such as elite interviews, foreign travel, and archival work. For example, in 2006, Ryan Matura wrote about Selling Wars To The Morally Conscious: A Comparative Content Analysis Of Leaders’ Use of Just Rhetoric As An Extension of Policy, and Melissa Levenger explored International and Grassroots Approaches To Justice and Reconciliation: A Case Study of Rwanda. In 2007, Erik Shoemaker examined Framing Processes and Collective Action Responses: Organizing Efforts against Anti- Undocumented Immigrant Ballot Initiatives in California and Arizona, while Cameron MacLeod’s study focused on Determining Indicative Factors of International Institutional Legitmacy.

To see examples of Political Science Independent Study projects, visit: http://www.wooster.edu/polisci/independentstudy.html