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What is the Research Experience Program?
The Research Experience Program (REP) is a free partnership between Stanford and local community colleges that allows instructors like you to directly expose your students to current cutting edge social science research for an entire quarter. REP accepts both In-Person (Face-to-Face) classes as well as online classes. The REP brings Stanford research projects to Foothill campus so that Foothill students can gain firsthand experience with social science studies, particularly those that utilize experiments and surveys.
How will your students benefit?
Enhancing their community college experience:
Your students will get the opportunity to partake in many different kinds of studies: online surveys, online experiments, group activities, individual activities, interviews from a wide variety of social science disciplines including psychology, sociology, communications, political science, education, and business. Results of the research will be made available to your students.
Engaging with Stanford:
Stanford University REP researchers will also take your students on tours of psychology labs on campus and will also present mini-lectures during the REP Speaker Series. If you're interested, visiting speakers can come to your class; all of our participating researchers are obligated to be ready to give short presentations about their topics of interest.
How will you benefit?
Each quarter your students participate in REP you will be considered an affiliate of IRiSS (the Institute for Research in the Social Sciences) and will be invited to participate in all IRiSS events held on Stanford campus.
Want to participate in REP?
If you would like your course to participate in the REP or if you have any questions, please contact the REP Administration at research-exp-program@stanford.edu. Please email us with:
- your name
- your email address
- your telephone number
- the course title and number
- whether your course is online or in-person
- an estimate of your course enrollment
We would need to know whether you intend to enroll your course into the REP at least 10 weeks in advance of the start date of the start of the term so we can figure out how many researchers we can accept to be in the program for an upcoming quarter. In case you do change your mind, we do have a final withdrawal deadline that is 4 weeks before the start of the quarter.
More questions before you join REP? Already using REP but have questions?
If you would like to learn more about REP, how to incorporate it into your classes, or for help with deadlines, credits, or the online scheduling system, please visit our Guide to Incorporating REP into Your Courses
