Title: The Benefits of Collective Responsibility for Capstone Courses & Example Syllabus: Social Science Capstone Seminar
Abstract: This course is required for all Liberal Arts-Social Science majors, and is meant to be taken during the final semester before graduation. It is designed to provide students with an
opportunity to draw on a variety of disciplines, perspectives, and methods from the social sciences, in application to a specific research problem o,f both, local and global import. A relevant theme, chosen each semester by the social science program faculty, provides the focus of the course. This semester’s theme is, Aims of Public Education. The course is conducted as a research and discussion seminar. Students will use secondary research as the basis for an individual research paper. In addition, students will participate in a collaborative project using a primary research method.
Publication Year: 2010
Publication Date: 2010-04-26
Language: en
Type: article
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