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2025 Spring > GRAD > CECS > CECS 698

TCCS Master's Capstone

Course #: CECS 698

Description:
The ''capstone project'' is designed to integrate student learning from the content and process of the overall TCCS curriculum in relation to a real issue or challenge facing the student. The project will include an analysis of relevant, critical literature along with the development of an appropriate, meaningful intervention to address the issue. This intervention may involve, for example, an organizing initiative, the planning of a program, the design of a training curriculum or the proposal for a research project. Students participate in a weekly Capstone Seminar led by a faculty member, and will also be mentored by a capstone advisor. Those students seeking to go on to a PhD program will be advised to pursue a research-based capstone project. In addition, the Capstone Seminar provides participants with an opportunity to review and reflect on their work in the TCCS Master's program and its impact on their current and future professional and personal lives. In sharing their process and products with each other throughout the semester, students will be able to demonstrate knowledge and integration of skills, process, and strategies of transdisciplinary thinking and grounded, local/global, reflective practice. Capstone projects will be presented by and for seminar participants, together with public audiences, as appropriate, during the final third of the semester.