Students exercise their roles as citizens as they work in groups to address a problem and provide a complete, concrete solution. Reflection encourages each individual to make connections among her major discipline, general education courses, personal values, and life's activities beyond the classroom.
All capstone courses share common goals and characteristics, varying only in their themes.
A capstone course serves as a culminating experience to the general education requirements, focusing on thinking processes, broad synthesis of content, and values in action. Students will assume their responsibilities as citizens as they work in groups to use critical thinking skills, knowledge acquired in general education and their majors, and personal values to study a problem and implement a small, concrete, complete outcome. The theme of inventions offers opportunities to consider how we invent knowledge, how we invent solutions to problems, and how we invent ourselves and our values through our actions. This course examines enduring and emerging revolutionary shifts in the human experience, exploring the comprehensiveness of change, some of its causes, and some potential responses we can make. We will examine how the arts as reflected over time and distance portray the diversity and commonality of the human experience, and how they teach us to participate in other cultures as well as our own.