Special Topics Capstone in the Liberal Arts

Catalog description

This Special Topics Capstone offers advanced approaches to themes across the humanities, social sciences, and/or STEM fields. While course topics vary by instructor, students will practice interdisciplinary and discipline-specific analysis, communication, and research methods. Coursework includes intersectional approaches to the liberal arts that foster complex, creative, and critical thinking about relevant academic, social, and/or global topics. Students may develop archival research skills; explore literary, historical, political, economic, or cultural theory; do advanced scientific analysis; develop advanced literacy in media, performance, or communication studies; or explore data, statistical, and other forms of analysis using qualitative and quantitative approaches to problem solving. Students will produce a project that is appropriate to capstone-level expectations and reflects the course topic. This course can be repeated if the topic is different. To fulfill the College Option liberal arts capstone requirement, this course must be completed at Baruch.