Capstone Experience

CLA Document

Advanced courses address the need for depth in students' education; those in the major typically achieve depth partly through specialization as the student advances. Intellectual maturity also involves students understanding their specialties in relation to other areas of study, understanding the broader issues for academic disciplines, and becoming prepared to make committed choices as participants in our complex world. Each student in

the College will satisfy the requirement of a Capstone course or an equivalent expert usually in the senior year after all other general education requirements have been completed. A normal Capstone course will be a seminar of no more than 15 student alternative forms of experience will be available. The Capstone Experience offers c seniors the opportunity to draw together the diverse threads of the undergraduate exl as a reflection on what they have learned and in preparation for active participation i broader world. An interactive group activity in which a student gains exposure to th perspectives and assumptions of other students is an essential element in a Capstone Experience.

The overall goal of the Capstone Experience, therefore, is to provide students in their senior year with the opportunity for synthesis and integration of their studies, reflection on the entirety of their undergraduate years, and orientation of the results of their studies toward the broader issues for academic disciplines and for the world students are about to enter. The Capstone Experience offers a unique opportunity within the Common Learning Agenda for realizing in a single academic endeavor the expectations of Bucknell's Mission Statement that "its students become both productive citizens and intellectually mature, self-aware individuals."

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