Reflecting on Your General Education Capstone Experience

Key Takeaways from This Class

Briefly reflect on your general education capstone experience and address the following questions: 

• What are the key takeaways from this class that you will carry with you?

• What did it take to bring your paper and presentation together, and how has that experience shaped your professional outlook?

• What recommendations or advice would you provide for students who will take this capstone course in the future?

Review the rubric for further information on how your assignment will be graded. 

Your paper should be 1/2-1 page in length. Adhere to APA Style throughout.

Fully answers all questions posed and demonstrates a sophisticated ability to reflect on and evaluate thoughts, work, or experiences. Provides substantial, relevant, and clear examples, and interpretations are insightful and well-supported.

The writing demonstrates sophisticated clarity and conciseness and is extremely well organized. Punctuation, spelling, and capitalization are all correct with minimal to no errors.

Uses APA Style accurately and consistently to cite sources without errors. Meets length and formatting requirements of the assignment. The required number of relevant audience-appropriate sources have been expertly cited and integrated into the content to support ideas.

The capstone seminar is a culminating in-depth experience in which students formulate their integrated General Education learning experiences into a final oral and written research-based project, which comprehensively addresses a pressing issue in health care and advances a proposed defensible solution. The application of learned methods, concepts, and theories into the construction of this project serves as the culminating summative evaluation of General Education Program Learning Outcomes achievement following completion of the General Education courses. 
Requisites

1. Differentiate and evaluate research-based theories, methodologies, and concepts related to a problem within the healthcare industry.

2. Analyze and interpret research to frame a current healthcare-related problem using multiple sources.

3. Conduct a literature review on an approved problem topic.

4. Collaboratively formulate and construct a summative, problem-based paper with other students by assembling, synthesizing, and reformulating valid and reliable methodology and research leading to a proposed ethical and defensible solution.

5. Design, construct, and deliver an oral defense that advances an argument or an approach to resolve the chosen problem. 

The General Education program provides students with a measureable, outcomes-based foundational education that not only integrates with and complements the chosen academic emphasis, but also transcends the major discipline. The General Education program prepares students to be competent and ethical problem solvers. They will be adept at demonstrating critical reasoning, scientific methodology, multidisciplinary inquiry, and communication skills that will enable them to make intellectually sound decisions that will embody a cultivated and deep appreciation for cultural diversity for the world in which they live.

The General Education program prepares students to be responsible, informed, and ethical citizens, and to develop the dimensions of character needed to navigate, adapt, and succeed in an ever-changing complex world. The General Education curriculum challenges students to explore and analyze the dimensions of the human condition through an intellectually coherent, meaningful, and transformative foundational education. The General Education program is designed such that engagement in high-impact learning experiences, technology, and integrative learning will advance students' knowledge and skills in written and oral communications, critical reasoning, cultural diversity, scientific reasoning and innovation, quantitative reasoning, and technological and informational literacy. The achievement of General Education core competencies affords students the foundation to grow personally, professionally, and socially, and seek opportunities for lifelong learning.

Following completion of the General Education curriculum, students will be able to: 

1. Employ effective written communication skills

2. Employ effective oral communication skills

3. Interpret quantitative data using mathematical principles to effectively identify core issues and solve problems.

4. Locate disparate information through multiple sources demonstrating technological and informational literacy.

5. Demonstrate critical thinking skills by descriptively analyzing complex issues and interpreting diverse perspectives in order to make conclusive, ethical, and defensible decisions.