If you are teaching 4 courses, 3 or which are new preparations, I would say no to all independent studies requests. You simply don't have time. It isn't your personal problem if the students must postpone graduation. That is an administrative problem. Perhaps the requirements for your psychology major must be adjusted to take into account the reality of impacted or rarely taught courses. But you shouldn't have to overload yourself to accomodate a poorly-designed curriculum.
On our campus, the independent study option is at the discretion of the individual faculty member. It gets used in all kinds of ways (including the one you described). However, I suspect that independent studies "courses" often result in less time & work for the students and are sometimes a way to avoid the demands of a "regular" course.
--Dave
Hetzel, Rod wrote:
Here's another post...Guess I've got a lot of questions this week... In our curriculum we have a designation for an "Independent Study" course. Over the past year I've had a number of students ask to take independent study courses with me. All of these students wanted to take independent study courses in the place of regular courses that are offered in our curriculum but for various reasons couldn't be fit into their schedules...
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