DSOC 4700

Senior Capstone Course

Course Description

Course information provided by the 2014-2015 Catalog.

The course is required for all Development Sociology majors and will be limited to DSOC majors and minors who will take the course in the second semester of their junior year or sometime during their senior year. The objective of this course is to synthesize and recapitulate the development sociology major for majors or minors. This objective is implemented by reading and discussing thematic content areas of the major including state, economy and society; population and development; the food system and society; and environment and society. The course requires a term paper (senior honors theses can substitute for these) and in-class presentations of student work.

Permission Note Enrollment limited to: DSOC majors with preference given to juniors and seniors.

Outcomes

• Students learn to articulate, explain, and evaluate foundational theories and assumptions of the social sciences.
• Integrate qualitative and quantitative information to write a report on a significant aspect of the social sciences, and/or an aspect of the social sciences that pertains to a student learning experience, e.g., study abroad, Cornell in Washington or an internship.
• Present the report in class in a manner that communicates the report in defensible and creative ways.

Distribution Category (KCM) (SBA)

When Offered Fall, spring.

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