NYSICCSI
New York State Independent College Consortium For Study in India

Landour School in Mussoorie, and two Hindi teachers.

Students earn a full term's credit from their home institute upon completion of the program. The specific allocation of credit among the following four subject areas is determined according to conventions on the home campus:

• Hindi Language: including reading, writing, and conversational skills
• Historic India: culture and history prior to Independence in 1947
• Contemporary issues: society, polity, and economy
• Independent project: designed in consultation with the home-campus NYSICCSI faculty representative and, often, with the student's major advisor, to take advantage of resources available in India, and undertaken with one or more faculty mentors in India, culminating in a substantial written paper. The emphasis is on field work, not merely library research.

"The independent project is an invaluable part of the program, as it forced me to make my own contacts, do field work, etc. It was good for me to do work of my own . . . "