Answers to questions about your professor for capstone
On Monday, November 27, 2017, Dr. Crrichio and I visited PSY300 to talk about the capstone process in psychology. We have guided students through capstone for many, many years and we shared some of our insights from those experiences. We also answered a bunch of questions. Students wrote down more questions and I'm going to try to answer them in the next few posts.
The theme of this post is "does it matter who my professor is for capstone?"
In some ways in might matter and in other ways in might not. In the fall terms we tend to offer 3-4 sections of capstone and in the spring terms we tend to offer 7-9 sections. Typically, we do not know which professor will teach which section until after you enroll for classes. We know this is not ideal and we're working to provide instructor names earlier in the process. We aim to offer at least one section that is hybrid or fully online in order to accommodate students' lack of time flexibility during the week.
So, that's all to say that there are a lot of professors teaching capstone. We are currently developing a guide so that all students and professors would work from the same information. That will mean that across sections the project options will be the same, the length of the final paper will be the same, and the number of references that need to be cited will be the same. However, no matter how similar some basic aspects will be, professors differ in their overall approach and temperament. There might be a good fit between you and your professor or there might be a less-than-ideal fit. That is probably true for just about any class you take. The bottom line is that getting into one section or another will not affect the type of project you do. Further, you are welcome to ask for help from any professor on the campus (especially PSY profs but any prof in any department that is related to your topic). PSY students in the past have worked closely with professors in HCOM, HDEV, and STAT.
The theme of this post is "does it matter who my professor is for capstone?"
In some ways in might matter and in other ways in might not. In the fall terms we tend to offer 3-4 sections of capstone and in the spring terms we tend to offer 7-9 sections. Typically, we do not know which professor will teach which section until after you enroll for classes. We know this is not ideal and we're working to provide instructor names earlier in the process. We aim to offer at least one section that is hybrid or fully online in order to accommodate students' lack of time flexibility during the week.
So, that's all to say that there are a lot of professors teaching capstone. We are currently developing a guide so that all students and professors would work from the same information. That will mean that across sections the project options will be the same, the length of the final paper will be the same, and the number of references that need to be cited will be the same. However, no matter how similar some basic aspects will be, professors differ in their overall approach and temperament. There might be a good fit between you and your professor or there might be a less-than-ideal fit. That is probably true for just about any class you take. The bottom line is that getting into one section or another will not affect the type of project you do. Further, you are welcome to ask for help from any professor on the campus (especially PSY profs but any prof in any department that is related to your topic). PSY students in the past have worked closely with professors in HCOM, HDEV, and STAT.
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