Integrative Capstone [CAPS]: Course List

Integrative capstone courses bring opportunities for integration, application, and closure to the undergraduate experience, and prepare students for postbaccalaureate work and life-long learning. Intended to be taken in the final year of a student’s degree, the CAPS courses serve as a culminating experience for students to demonstrate achievement of the university’s undergraduate learning goals. CAPS courses may occur within or outside the major, depending on the requirements of a student’s major field of study.

Many CAPS courses ask students to demonstrate a depth of knowledge within their chosen academic field of study that integrates its history, core methods, techniques, vocabulary, and unsolved problems. Other CAPS courses require students to apply concepts from their general and specialized studies to personal, academic, service learning, professional, and/or community activities. Other CAPS courses ask students to demonstrate how the methods and concepts of a chosen discipline relate to those of other disciplines through engaging in cross-disciplinary activities. Each type of CAPS course typically involves the production of a major project that demonstrates the student’s cumulative learning toward the bachelor’s degree.

Effective Fall 2019, students must take CAPS courses in residence. “In residence” means a course either taught on a WSU campus or taught by WSU faculty, wherever the course may be located. Transfer and study abroad courses are not suitable for fulfilling the capstone requirement.

Choose one [CAPS] course (3 credits) to satisfy part of your UCORE graduation requirements.

• Learn more about required elements for each CAPS course.