Objectives
- Challenge students to develop their talents to their fullest potential.
- Promote critical thinking and problem solving from perspectives that cut across standard disciplinary boundaries.
- Foster interactions with faculty in small classes and informally through co-curricular activities and research collaboration.
- Nurture students' independent scholarship in their majors through original research projects that constitute the basis for the Senior Thesis Seminar.
- Prepare students to transition to careers, graduate and professional educational programs with a skill set that includes superior written and oral expression, interdisciplinary understanding and original thought.
Learning Outcomes
- Students produce a clearly written, discipline-specific thesis that analyzes a complex problem or addresses a significant research question with insight and imagination.
- Students produce an original and thoroughly researched thesis that utilizes evidence in a convincing manner; synthesizes primary and secondary sources; and cites references appropriately.
- Students deliver an oral presentation on their thesis project that is well organized, effectively delivered, knowledgeable and appropriate for a multi-disciplinary audience.
- Students independently create whole arguments out of multiple parts (synthesize) or draw conclusions by combining examples, facts or theories from more than one field of study or disciplinary perspective.