COSC Capstone

[burbuja0512]

I'm curious about these courses. I'm looking at a BS program, Liberal Studies with a Humanities IS plan. What are these capstone classes like?

I took the COSC Business Capstone, Strategic Management 499. Mine was a traditional online class with forum posts and group work in addition to the regular assignments.

I talked to people at the COSC graduation that had other types of Capstones. The Individualized Studies majors had a totally different type of class. There was no group work and lots of writing. I didn't ask if they had forum posts.

My Capstone had a very interesting text and I enjoyed the coursework. I felt like studying for some of the tougher biz tests like Money & Banking or Principles of Finance was much harder than the Capstone was. I struggled with learning the APA citation probably more than I did with any of the subject matter.

Overall, DO NOT be afraid of the Capstone. If you can make it through the CLEP/DSST/ECE?etc.. tests, you will be more than prepared to ace it. I can't stress it enough: CLEP testing and a self-imposed study schedule really can be a TON more difficult than having a real class with a teacher and assignments. I'm so glad I did the Capstone for many reasons, but one of those is that it gave me much more respect for what I had really accomplished in testing. I was like "WOW this class isn't super easy, but having 8 weeks to learn a topic and a syllabus to follow is SO much more simple than forcing yourself to learn difficult topics on your own!"