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COSC Capstone
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I'm curious about these courses. I'm looking at a BS program, Liberal Studies with a Humanities IS plan. What are these capstone classes like?
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Bucket Lister Wrote:I'm curious about these courses. I'm looking at a BS program, Liberal Studies with a Humanities IS plan. What are these capstone classes like?


I took the COSC Business Capstone, Strategic Management 499. Mine was a traditional online class with forum posts and group work in addition to the regular assignments.

I talked to people at the COSC graduation that had other types of Capstones. The Individualized Studies majors had a totally different type of class. There was no group work and lots of writing. I didn't ask if they had forum posts.

My Capstone had a very interesting text and I enjoyed the coursework. I felt like studying for some of the tougher biz tests like Money & Banking or Principles of Finance was much harder than the Capstone was. I struggled with learning the APA citation probably more than I did with any of the subject matter.

Overall, DO NOT be afraid of the Capstone. If you can make it through the CLEP/DSST/ECE?etc.. tests, you will be more than prepared to ace it. I can't stress it enough: CLEP testing and a self-imposed study schedule really can be a TON more difficult than having a real class with a teacher and assignments. I'm so glad I did the Capstone for many reasons, but one of those is that it gave me much more respect for what I had really accomplished in testing. I was like "WOW this class isn't super easy, but having 8 weeks to learn a topic and a syllabus to follow is SO much more simple than forcing yourself to learn difficult topics on your own!"
Regis University, ITESO, Global MBA with a focus in Emerging Markets 4.0 GPA, Dual-university degree (Spanish/English) 
COSC BS, Business Admin

My BS Credits:
Spanish 80 | Humanities 67 | A & I Lit 72 | Sub Abuse 452 | Bus Ethics 445 | Tech Writ 62 | Math 53 | HTYH 454 | Am. Govt 65 | Env & Humanity 64 | Marketing 65 | Micro 61| Mgmt 63| Org Behavior 65| MIS 446|Computing 432 | BL II 61 | M&B 50 | Finance 411 | Supervision 437| Intro Bus. 439| Law Enforcement 63|  SL: Accounting I B | Accounting II C+| Macro A | ECE: Labor Relations A | Capstone: A| FEMA PDS Cert 
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Capstone for BSLS is not difficult, but there is a good bit of writing. There were only 2 people in my class. We just had to pick a subject in 1st 5 weeks, you develope that project and in the final 10 weeks you write the monster. Mine ran to 24 pages. the other students ran to 26 pages. A you go along you submit drafts and we had to give feedback on each others work. Tat was as close as we ever got to any sort of group project.

I found the cornerstone to be excellent prep for my capstone. I you can finish that the capstone is not difficult. Just stay on top of your deadlines and it's pretty easy.
MBA, Western Governors University February 2014
BS Charter Oak State College November 2011
AS in EMS August 2010

I'm always happy to complete the free application waiver for those applying to WGU (I get a free gift from WGU for this).  Just PM me your first/last name and a valid email so I can complete their form.

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