I am teaching a senior capstone in our sport coaching education department. It is writing and speaking intensive. My question is, if you teach one, what does yours look like? What do you do? How often do you meet? Thank you in advance.
I have supervised a senior capstone student during my graduate career. For reference, this student was interested in graduate school. In my case, the student was asked to complete a semester/year long project that synthesized knowledge of his undergraduate career. For the case of that student, it was about the redistricting process and how it could possibly be cleaned up using mathematics. We maybe met once every week to address problems that he was having. From my perspective, the things that are essential to a capstone course are:
In other words, I see a capstone as what a practicing professional would have to do on the job. Can you pass as a productive member of a profession related to your field? I also think that for any student interested in graduate studies, their capstone should be related to what they might do in the grad school process.
When I took my capstone in mathematics, it was essentially a synthesis of our undergraduate curriculum and trying to tie threads together from different branches of mathematics. It met twice a week.
The undergraduate department at my graduate institution had a capstone that met once a week for 2 hours. It was largely ethics based with a unifying discipline related project in computer science.
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