SECP 498-PPE Senior Capstone I (PPE)

Number of Sections: 1 | Days and Times: T&TH (08:00-09:40 ICT)

Course Description

Senior Capstone is a year-long project-based/research-based course that all senior students have to take and complete. Senior Capstone I is taken in the first semester of their senior year and Capstone II is taken in the second semester of their senior year.

Senior Capstone projects are always associated with student’s declared majors. While the syllabus is shared by all Senior Capstone Instructors, a student will work closely throughout the entire year with a dedicated capstone instructor, who will create a conducive research and learning environment for all capstone course students. This is made possible by the fact that each capstone course has no more than 16 students, who will be advised closely by the capstone instructor. The students will also be required to provide feedback to one another in the course. 

The senior capstone courses are characterized not by the delivery of instruction by the instructor, but by the immersive and collaborative environment. This is made possible by the cumulative and progression-based nature of the course.  In the first semester, the students will be taken on sequential steps to finally produce a detailed project proposal. In the second semester, the students will do research and produce a thesis, which will then be recommended by the instructor to be approved by the division of capstone origin in order for the student to graduate from Parami University.

This course meets for three hours once every week, and expects students to put in at least ten independent project hours per week.

Prerequisites: This course is available only to fourth year students.