Adding a High-Impact Capstone to the Sociology Major

Abstract

We propose to add a capstone requirement to the Sociology Major, requiring students to take one of two high-impact capstone seminars. One will be focused on research experience and the other on professional experience. Both will require a major paper that integrates Sociology SLOs, and both will include reflective work to help students plan for careers. We propose to reduce the required number of electives (from 6 to 5), keeping the total major at 33 credit hours.