Capstone Experience (CS)

These courses must widely integrate knowledge and skills from either the student's overall program or the student's major program.

Rationale

An educated person should achieve a depth of understanding in one or more subject areas and see connections and relationships among various disciplines and types of knowledge. By participating in the capstone experience, each student should draw together principles from various courses of study and should examine a topic or tackle a project of special interest using skills and abilities acquired from several courses. Students will emerge from the capstone with a more coherent understanding of their educational experience, a better understanding of their own intellectual growth, and with the tools needed by educated people to be competent lifetime learners.

Goals

The goal of the capstone is to provide a culminating experience in which students will widely integrate, extend, critique, and apply knowledge and skills from either the student's overall program or the student's major program.

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Course Criteria

A course must meet the following criteria in order to be designated as fulfilling the Capstone Experience requirement.

Courses should be completed as a culminating experience in the student's program of study.

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Courses must address two or more of the following:

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1. Incorporating skills emphasized in general education courses, such as oral and written communication skills, reading skills, and critical thinking.
  
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2. Drawing together prior knowledge and skills gained within a major.
  
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3. Making use of prior experiences within a major to provide opportunities to create new configurations of knowledge and/or to use existing skills in a creative way.
  
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4. Facilitating the transition from college to life beyond.
  
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Learning Outcomes

Students will meet all of the following learning outcomes.

Students will be able to implement skills emphasized in general education courses, such as reading skills, speaking skills, critical thinking, and using information resources.

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Students will be able to synthesize prior knowledge and utilize the skills gained within a major.

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Students will be able to draw upon prior experiences within a major to create new configurations of knowledge and/or use existing skills in a creative way.

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