Planning: Field Work, Independent/Directed Study or Research Courses
Students hoping to participate in directed research, independent research, directed study or independent study should investigate the opportunities present at the programs below.
Some programs are designed to help students start writing their thesis, some are merely exploratory, and some are intended to supplement course loads when necessary or desired courses aren’t available.
Definitions:
- Directed Research: students collaborate with faculty to research and investigate a problem or hypothesis
- Directed Study: students collaborate with faculty to examine a subject area of their choice
- Field Work: students participate in hands on research out in the field
- Independent Research: students design and carry out their own research and report to faculty at the end of study period (quarter, semester, year)
- Independent Study: students design and carryout their own course and course work, reporting to faculty at the end of their period of study (quarter, semester, year)
The following programs have been approved for study:
Directed Research:
Argentina - IFSA-Butler-Buenos Aires and Mendoza
Directed Research (any topic available, under a director and supervision of a field expert committee)
Botswana - University of Botswana, Gaborone
Required course: Setswana Language and Culture Practicum (has independent research component)
China - CET Harbin Chinese Language Program
Opportunity to do Research in Harbin in Chinese (one-on-one tutorial, any topic that interests you, "thesis research")
Denmark - DIS-Copenhagen
Biomedical Research Project
Medical Research Project
Student Research Project
England - London School of Economics
Research courses and Applied course projects available
Germany - IES Metropolitan Studies in Berlin
Research Seminar Module A: Designing Research for Inquiries into Metropolitan Studies- Scotland - University of Aberdeen
Some research courses available, generally only available in 400 level classes that most students won't take 
South Africa - CIEE Cape Town
Directed Independent Research
Spain - IES Barcelona
Research Seminar
Directed Study:
- South Africa - The Macalester-Pomona-Swarthmore Consortium
Directed Study
Field Work:
Italy - IES Rome
Archaeological Dig- South Africa - CIEE Cape Town
Service Learning – Independent Research and Capstone Project
Independent Research:
Russia - ACTR, St. Petersburg and Moscow
Major Field Elective: Independent Research Project
Independent Study:
- China - CET Beijing Chinese Studies Program
Independent Study option - England - University College London
Fine arts independent studio 
Greece - College Year in Athens
Independent Study (Honors Tutorial)
Israel - Hebrew University, Jerusalem
Independent Study- Italy - ICCS in Rome
Independent Study or Directed Reading available 
Morocco - Al Akhawayn University
Independent Study- South Africa - CIEE Cape Town
Independent Study