TY - JOUR AU - Cameron, Jeanne PY - 2010/04/26 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - The Benefits of Collective Responsibility for Capstone Courses & Example Syllabus: Social Science Capstone Seminar JF - TRAILS: Teaching Resources and Innovations Library for Sociology JA - TRAILS VL - IS - SE - DO - UR - https://trails.asanet.org/article/view/the-benefits-of-collective-responsibility-for SP - AB - 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 anopportunity 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. ER -