ENG 495 - Senior Capstone Seminar

The senior capstone for English majors is a departure from our typical senior seminars, which typically focus on a specific author(s), critical field, theoretical approach, or creative genre, and aspire to yield near graduate-level work. Yet many of our majors have no immediate plans for graduate study and are more concerned with finding a job and figuring out how to live as adults in “the real world.” This capstone seminar is designed to help students build bridges between their academic study at Davidson and the lives they’d like to live after they graduate. Through student-directed reading, digital research and writing, collaborative inquiries, and consultations with alums, this seminar will help students set goals and develop a personal narrative and toolkit of practices to help achieve them. Culminating in a research project that uses digital tools and platforms to demonstrate the knowledge and skills students have gained during their college careers, the course will include substantial reflection on developing a sustainable life and finding a career path or direction for the near future.

Prerequisites & Notes
Not open to first-year students and sophomores without instructor’s permission.