"Teaching Senior Capstone Seminars"
Tuesday, October 14
3:15-4:45 in Buntrock 142 - note afternoon time!
Sheri Breen, Political Science, Environmental Studies,
Women's Studies, and 2003-04 CILA Associate
Bruce Nordstrom-Loeb, Sociology and Anthropology
Meg Ojala, Art and Art History
Barbara Reed, Religion, and Asian Studies
What are the goals and needs of a capstone seminar, and what role can they play in a department or interdisciplinary program? How do we balance thematic focus of the course as a whole against the desire of seniors to pursue widely disparate senior research projects? How do we balance the course's reading/discussion load with students' independent research work? Can reflective electronic portfolios or web-based presentation of student research projects play an important role? What strategies can we use to evaluate student work in these intensive research-based courses? Finally, should we be doing more of them?
