Capstone

Catalog description

This course provides opportunities to explore diverse roles of dental hygienists in the health care system, seek advanced knowledge and skills necessary to participate in these roles, and focus their interest in their chosen professional role through teaching, service-learning, observation, hands-on experience, and most critically, self-directed learning. Students will analyze, synthesize, and develop solutions to an approved healthcare issue. Students will integrate several main areas of study in the BSDH program and create a paper or project that reflects comprehensive knowledge and ability to reflect, connect, and produce a work based on learning experiences throughout out the BSDH program. Students will choose a relevant topic and use an interdisciplinary approach to seek solutions. This course is to be taken during the last semester of the program. The capstone is a student-focused course with mentorship provided by the course instructors.