For Capstone Instructors Only
Examples of the range of questions you may ask as part of the
Spring 2006 Pre-registration Program.
If you wish to have questions asked send your list of question to Katharyn Nottis. Also please be sure to include the questions in the Course Guide Descriptions.
Examples of questions that could be asked:
Research in Science:
The following questions will be asked of those who seek to
pre - register for this course:
1) This course requires that you concurrently do research with a faculty member
in science or engineering. Have you already secured permission from a faculty
member?
2) Indicate who you will be working with (if you have secured permission) OR
indicate the status of your search for a research adviser. If this is your first
choice for a Capstone, do this as soon as possible and email the CL Coordinator
once you have secured permission. If this is NOT your first choice for a capstone,
you may wait until you are informed that you have been closed out of your higher
ranked courses.
CAPS 4XY: What is Life?
This is a permission course and Prof. Darwin requires that you visit him in person. Have you visited Prof. Darwin and secured his permission?
CAPS 4XY: Where in the World is Carmen Sandiago?
This course requires that you have had PBS 101. Have you had
PBS 101?
CAPS 4XY: Why Johnny Can't Read
This course requires that you have completed a W2. Please list the W2 course you have taken and what you learned about reading in it.
CAPS 4XY: Building from Harry Potter
1. Are you an English, Education, or Psychology major? If "yes"
then skip the other questions.
2. Are you a doing a minor in Muggle Studies? (Not required, but if "yes"
then answer question 3 accurately and if "no" skip to question 4).
3. If you are an English, Education, or Psychology minor, please list ALL of
the following courses that you have taken or are currently taking. If you plan
to take any of these in the Spring semester, indicate them with a note of your
intention to take them in the spring.
EDUC 101 Foundations of Education
ENGL 218 Children's Literature
ANTH 227 Witchcraft and Politics
RELI 220 Comparative Religious Ethics
4. What curricular reason do you have for taking this course?
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The Faculty of the College of Arts and Sciences instituted this Pre-Registration for Capstone Experiences for the Spring semesters in May, 1999. The reasons and policies guiding this program are given below:
Allocation into Capstones Experiences uses the following principles:
a) Students are assigned available spaces in the courses using
the criteria imposed by the faculty member teaching the course.
b) Students required to take a particular capstone have preference over others.
c) Seniors who have not had a Capstone Experience get preference over those
who have met the requirement.
d) Seniors have preference over Juniors.
e) Students are assigned relative priority at random (a random number is assigned
to all students who register by the deadline, and within categories of students
this number would be used to give priority).
f) Reversals of random assignments will occur only when doing so is required
to give all students a course they ranked as Q or better (where Q is minimized).
If student A has a better random priority than student B, student A may be placed
in selection 3 rather than 2 if it means student B is placed in selection 4
rather than 7.