O Capstone! My Capstone

[Kab]

Hello to everybody. I have questions that I cannot fully answer.

1) Which is the content of a capstone. It is something that is here constantly talk about, but still a mystery to me in how many activities are inside this subject. It appear that has little papers and then a big one...but how many little papers and does have any exam in the middle also?

2)In your subjective opinion, how much work is a capstone in relationship to a normal subject?

3) For 2 bachelors and one of the bachelors has two majors, is necessary to do 3 capstones or just 2? I guess that is going to be a BSBA and BA major in Psychology and something else. But the two BA probably would have a Liberal arts capstone. So-> is enough one capstone for the two mayors or is necessary two capstones for two majors in liberal arts.

Thanks in advance for your answers and patience.

[dfrecore]

The capstone is more work for sure. If you do a BSBA, that's it's own Capstone. Then, Liberal Arts has a capstone as well. So you'd have to take both.

For the BSBA capstone, the work you do throughout the course takes you through what you need to do for the capstone; so you'll learn about SWOT analysis, business cases, etc. and then you'll do your own. It wasn't as bad as I thought. My advice; keep up with your reading/note taking, practice the essay questions for the midterm exam, schedule the midterm as soon as you can, and then start on the capstone about halfway through the course; and the biggest thing, choose one of the 3 scenarios and then move on (you do NOT need to love the subject or think about it ever again in your life, so just pick one and do it).

No idea on the other capstone.

[Kab]

First of all thank you for the quick answer.
what is the midterm exam about? and how many questions? uses proctor U or another company (my hope here is that is like SDC that give less trouble)?

[rachel83az]

If you do BA Psych and BA Biology (for instance) and graduate with both at the same time, you only need to take the capstone once.

If you do the BA Psych, graduate, and then come back later for the BA Biology, you may need to repeat the capstone.

[Kab]

Awesome answer. Thank you very much!
for the exam that was commented exist in the Capstone. Does anybody know if we have to deal with ProctorU (or problematic companies in general) or is a nice experience (like the company in SDC)?

[rachel83az]

I think the exam is ProctorU, unfortunately.

[davewill]

The liberal arts capstone is similar. You'll do assignments every couple of weeks that are basically the sections of the final document. At the end, you'll combine them all and edit it into a coherent whole.

[Kab]

Thank you @Davewill. Much appreciate the info.
What is the content of the exam? about how to prepare the document or what exactly?

[davewill]

Thank you @Davewill. Much appreciate the info.
What is the content of the exam? about how to prepare the document or what exactly?

There's no real exam. The exam referred to is a general assessment used by the school for their own purposes. The points earned are only there to ensure you take it, and try to do well.

[LevelUP]

I would say the capstones are about double the work of a normal course.

A normal course might take 40hrs, give or take 20 hours.

A capstone could take 80 hours, give or take 40 hours.

The business capstone is more work since you have the midterm exam and 11 forum posts vs 4 for the liberal arts capstone.  You'll be writing 15,000+ words in the business capstone total.