Climate Resilience Capstone

Catalog description

This Capstone represents the culmination of a student’s work across the previous six, 1-credit courses required for the graduate certificate. The Capstone is an opportunity to take theory and skills presented in these courses and apply them to a real-world challenge identified by the student. The type of challenges identified is quite broad considering the multiplicity of potential impacts from a changing climate to the natural and human built infrastructure and institutions. But the Capstone necessarily must be framed so that specific identified objectives can be met within a 15 week period. Within the first weeks of the course, the goals, content, format and timeline of the Capstone must be framed and submitted to the instructor for approval, which requires students to review the Capstone guidelines document and develop a draft before the course formally begins.