The Honors Capstone
As an honors student, you will apply the finishing touch to your last year of ndergraduate work with a special “capstone” course – an individualized project, thesis or study undertaken with the supervision of a faculty member of your choice.
Recent projects:
- A student in a Spanish class assisted a translator twice a month at a local medical clinic serving young children.
- A biology student collected samples of prairie plants that grow along local railroad right-of-ways.
- An illustration major analyzed the representation of the enemy in Allied and Axis propaganda posters of WWII.
- A student majoring in operationsmanagement and information systems customized a database to track billing for
clients at a family planning center.
- A history student interviewed some residents of the county nursing home who had climbed aboard the “orphan trains” of the 1930s.
