Overview and Learning Outcomes

Through the Core Capstone Work (which is a project or assignment in students' major seminar/capstone course/experience), students integrate, apply, demonstrate, reflect on, and communicate their cumulative learning as they grapple with one or more relevant complex question(s) that require input from multiple disciplines and perspectives. The Core Capstone Work demonstrates the point of broad liberal learning and articulates a clear purpose for general education; rather than simply making individuals vaguely "well rounded," liberal learning provides the big-picture knowledge and skills students will need to solve problems in their civic, professional, and personal lives.

Through the principles of agency and self-direction, students have a voice in planning their journeys through the curriculum and co-curriculum, to complete work that is relevant to them, and to take the opportunity to reflect on their learning.The goal of the Capstone Work is to provide students with the opportunity to create a project that reflects their intellectual and personal development in a way that integrates their Core and major learning. It:

• Includes preparation, presentation, and feedback
• Articulates a pathway to mission; leadership and service, making meaning of education to self and societyDemonstrates student’s work on a big question they choose that integrates disciplines, develops and reassesses a plan, and identifies next steps – demonstrating critical and logical skills
• Demonstrates student’s work on a big question they choose that integrates disciplines, develops and reassesses a plan, and identifies next steps – demonstrating critical and logical skills
• Reflects and connects the major/career to core goals and outcomes

Learning Outcomes: Students will be able to:
1. Communicate effectively orally or in writing in ways that enhance meaning as part of a professional project.
2. Demonstrate the ability to make connections between at least two parts of the Core Curriculum learning outcomes and their major in a piece of signature work (“parts” are the first-year seminar, foundations for the future and understanding the world domains, and the themed explorations).
3. Demonstrate the role of the Humanics philosophy and leadership in service in order to investigate a central question related to the student’s major.

Google folder of approved Core Capstone Works for each major program of study.