@article{Cameron_2010, place={Washington DC: American Sociological Association.}, title={The Benefits of Collective Responsibility for Capstone Courses & Example Syllabus: Social Science Capstone Seminar}, url={https://trails.asanet.org/article/view/the-benefits-of-collective-responsibility-for}, abstractNote={This course is required for all Liberal Arts-Social Science majors, and is meant to be taken during the final semester before graduation. It is designed to provide students with an opportunity to draw on a variety of disciplines, perspectives, and methods from the social sciences, in application to a specific research problem o,f both, local and global import. A relevant theme, chosen each semester by the social science program faculty, provides the focus of the course. This semester’s theme is, "Aims of Public Education." The course is conducted as a research and discussion seminar. Students will use secondary research as the basis for an individual research paper. In addition, students will participate in a collaborative project using a primary research method.}, journal={TRAILS: Teaching Resources and Innovations Library for Sociology}, author={Cameron, Jeanne}, year={2010}, month={Apr.} }