PSY-498   Psychology Capstone 3 credits

Prerequisites: PSY-313

The capstone course will investigate the persistant problems of psychology. Each student will collaborate with a departmental faculty mentor willing to support their thesis or project topic. The student, supported by their faculty mentor, will choose readings from the primary literature in psychology which summarize a specific topic of interest to the student culminating in a research or thesis proposal to be completed and submitted to and approved by the faculty of the department before the end of fall term. Each student will take the Major Fields Test in psychology before the end of the fall term.