Doctoral Capstone Preparation-I

Catalog description

This course prepares students to actively engage in comprehensive and in-depth scholarly activities by developing a capstone project while collaborating with a faculty capstone mentor/advisor. The project allows the students to synthesize and apply the knowledge gained in previous courses throughout the curriculum. The project will involve designing, implementing, and evaluating a scholarly study that aligns with the profession's current research priorities and is meant to advance knowledge translation, clinical or professional practices, service delivery, and professional issues. The topic of the project will be designed in one of four scholarship categories: Scholarship of Discovery, Scholarship of Integration, Scholarship of Application, Scholarship of Teaching and Learning. Within these four categories, the students will work in-depth on a scholarly study that involves one or more of the following areas in relevance to the anticipated doctoral experience later in the curriculum: Clinical practice skills, research skills, administration, leadership, program and policy development, advocacy, education, or theory development. The students will work with the faculty mentor to a) design a formal evaluation plan that will set individualized and specific objectives and ensures thorough assessment of the project outcomes; b) explore the supervision plan, which will follow a specific outline, and be co-created with the site supervisor and c) begin development of the formal proposal. Prerequisite Course(s): Prerequisites: OCTH 650, OCTH 701