I added a TESU Capstone page to the wiki

[dcan]

I'm taking the liberal arts capstone, but I took the BSBA capstone previously before switching majors. The liberal arts capstone is far more work than I anticipated because my chosen topic is actually an intersection of broad topics, and since the topic is technical the mentor asks that it be presented in layman terms. Therefore I have to explain all of them in detail, which I would not have to do if the paper were actually in a technical department. It will probably be about 50 pages long when I'm done.

It isn't difficult once you get into it, because there is a lot of repetition. My final chapter is due tomorrow and I've procrastinated on it for two weeks, and in fact was procrastinating on it by writing the wiki entry.

Once you get into the groove and learn to repeat yourself over and over again in slightly different terms it becomes a lot easier. The paper requires you to repeat yourself several times. Repetition is something that you are repeatedly required to do. Etc.

My wife summarized it best while writing her own papers for another school: "I'm just looking for some facts to put into my BS factory."

I don't know what the BSBA capstone is like today, the example I gave in the wiki was the one I had to do a few years ago. (I took a break after switching majors so there was a gap) But I believe it uses the same textbook I used back then (just a newer version) so it presumably is the same basic approach.

Basically the BSBA capstone was a series of papers that analyzed some particular case study from the text. Then a final paper that required you to analyze a particular business problem and apply your knowledge of various business topics like management, accounting, marketing, law, etc. all together in one report. It was kind of weird too, because the final paper had to be APA format but the instructor insisted on that one paper being single-spaced. It was required to be at least 10 pages long I believe, but because it was single-spaced it is the equivalent of a 20 page "normal" APA paper that is double-spaced.

I've attached a few of my BSBA module papers and the capstone. (and also updated the wiki to point to these as well) It's probably fine since it was four years ago, and if anyone plagiarizes it I'm sure it would be caught by TurnItIn. So feel free to use it to get an idea of what type of work to expect in the class.

Hope that helps!