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Capstone Template and Examples

Page history last edited by Ariane Hoy 6 years ago

 

 

Community-Engaged Capstone Project Examples


 

With efforts to integrate a required capstone for juniors and seniors, and to build opportunities for integrative pathways, we are interested in producing a printed publication and online repository of student work. Its purpose will be to inspire ideas and illustrate the many different types of projects and connections. Please identify one senior to profile this year in the national publication (you may send additional or want to make your own booklet if you'd like). This senior’s capstone project should be a capacity-building or social action project and, ideally, reflect integrative learning across their Bonner and academic experience. The student may or may not have received academic credit for the project, but it should reflect a connection with academic learning.

 

For this profile, please submit a short few paragraphs of text (500 words or fewer) and related photo. The text should include:

      • Names: The student’s name and institution
      • Academics: the student’s major, minor, and/or certificate
      • Partner: The name of the related community partner or constituency (if a social action project)
      • Faculty Mentor: the name of the faculty advisor (if the student had a faculty advisor or connection)
      • A summary of what the student did, especially highlighting the project, related learning, and its impact or importance to the community. In particular, you can frame this to highlight how the project connected the student's academic and/or career interests with a real purpose. You can also note if the project led to any post graduate trajectory, which is something that many of the capstones are doing. 
      • Photo (of student, display, or with partner - optional)

 

Below are several examples, drawn from real students using the examples on the previous page: Engaged Signature Work - Campus Examples

 

See the examples here. These were developed from real student capstones, previously shared with the Foundation.

 

Katie Beck, Allegheny College

Academics: Studied theatre and writing. Majored in Values, Ethics, and Social Action

Partner: the Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Meadville, Pennsylvania

Faculty mentor: David Roncolato

 

Katie spent much of her Bonner experience working with the Meadville Council of the Arts, where she developed and taught a low-cost youth theater class. For one of her summer internships, she interned with the Cornerstone Theater Company in Salinas, California. There, she worked as assistant director for Plumas Negras, a play following three generations of woman as they worked in the fair fields. Through this, she was exposed to the community theater and its transformative power for social change. Returning to Allegheny, she sought to do a senior capstone project with the local Bethel AME Church, which had played an important role as a site in the Underground Railroad and in supporting the Civil Rights Movement in the region. Katie used oral history methods to gather the stories of the church and people in the neighborhood. She constructed a play based on the narratives, then engaged local residents (including children and youth) in performing the play. The capstone project had a strong impact on community residents, celebrating their history, and empowered individuals who were part of it. Since graduating, Katie has pursued this vocation, founding the Gum-Dip Theatre that creates plays with, for, and about the people of the Rust Belt. 

 

Jonathan Franklin, Wofford College

 

Angela Jones, College of Charleston

 

Shae Vorhees, Siena College