Events
Winter 2019 English Capstone Conference
Date and Time
Friday, April 19, 2019 9:00 AM - 3:00 PM
Description
The English Capstone provides several important opportunities for
English majors not offered elsewhere in the curriculum: the
opportunity to reflect individually on the intellectual impact of
majoring in English (intellectual autobiography); the opportunity to
engage in the development and writing of an extended paper (senior
thesis); and the opportunity to participate in the public presentation
of the thesis work (departmental student conference).
Our Capstone course underscores the department’s principles and
values: to cultivate critical reading and reflection; to produce
excellent writing in a variety of forms; to speak, read, and write
effectively; and to achieve literary, analytical, pedagogical, and
theoretical skills.
This conference is the culminating event for the English Capstone
course. It requires that students publicly present a project for which
they have been responsible from its inception to its final form. The
presentation makes concrete the expertise that students have accrued
in the research process and allows them to speak as authorities on
their topic. No matter what career our students enter, public speaking
is an essential skill, as is the act of distilling complex knowledge
into a compact yet comprehensible package. Thus, this final assignment
for the Capstone course is the one that perhaps most clearly
transitions students out of the major and into the next phase of their
lives. We see this element of the course as a way to help students
recognize each others’ accomplishments—and to help them be proud of
their own as they move forward into their various futures.
A complete listing of the Winter 2019 Capstone schedule can be found here.
NOTES:
Students will present in the order in
which they appear in this program; a question-and-answer session will
follow once all students on the panel have presented their papers.
Refreshments are available to all presenters and their guests, located
on a table at the end of the hallway by KC 2270.
Contact
Contact the English Department with any questions.
616-331-3400 ~ [email protected]