While Capstone courses vary in their themes, all share common goals and characteristics. Action directed toward contemporary problems produced by these changes. 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. Minimum 75 credit hours completed at the time of registration. A historical overview of cultural evolution provides a framework in which humans are viewed as unique among animals, because animals adapt to the world while humans adapt the world to themselves.
Students review major advances in the sciences, the arts, and society.
The emphasis is on examining the interaction between the social and moral climate with scientific and technological advances. After examining how humans have altered their world in the past, students work in task forces to question how humans are currently changing the world, and the resultant benefits, risks, and dilemmas. This course examines revolutionary developments that have transformed past human experiences and continue to affect contemporary life. Students explore revolutionary shifts in world views, lifestyles, and social institutions and consider the comprehensiveness of change. The course focuses on some of the major forces and figures responsible for the scientific, economic, political, ideological, and ecological realities we currently face.