Though open to students in any major or school, LIBA 497: Capstone Studies is the course used primarily by students majoring in the College of Liberal Arts to satisfy the University Core Curriculum’s Category D: Synthesis requirement. (The exceptions are students being certified in secondary education, who will satisfy Synthesis when they take Education 448.) Most students will take the course in their senior year, when they will be able to choose among a variety of topics offered by instructors from several different disciplines. This site is designed to assist students in choosing the topic of greatest interest and value to themselves.

All sections of LIBA 497 will conform to the following catalog description:

LIBA 497: Capstone Studies—3 credit hours. A senior-level seminar designed for the Synthesis category of the University Core Curriculum. Topics will change from semester to semester, but each offering will encourage students to draw on their educational experiences to develop interdisciplinary responses to a problem or issue in contemporary life. Open to students in any major or school. Prerequisite: senior standing or consent of instructor.

Instructors who are teaching sections of the course in the Spring or Summer of  2005 have written brief descriptions of the topics they have selected and the approaches they plan to use. Descriptions are arranged by section number. Further information is available from each instructor at the phone number or address listed at the end of his/her description. Information about the program as a whole is available from Robert West, Capstone Director, at (812) 461-5209 or rwest@usi.edu.

Summer 2008 Semester

(Information subject to change)

Summer Session I
30130	Mass Media & Society	MTWRF	10:00-11:50	Rinks, W
30131	Cathedrals	MTWRF	10:00-11:50	Jeffers, R
30646	Viet Nam	MTWRF	10:00-11:50	Pease, R
Summer Session II
30132	Philosophy of Communication	MTWRF	10:00-11:50	West, R
30133	Viet Nam	MTWRF	10:00-11:50	Pease, R
Summer Session III
30134	Memory and the Creative Mind	W	5:00-8:00	Evey-Johnson, J

Fall 2008 Semester

(Information subject to change)

51511	Perspectives on Humor	MW	3:00-4:15	Palladino, J
52053	Impact of the 60s	MW	4:00-4:15	Johnson, K
51513	Racism in America	MWF	9:00-9:50	Hart, B
51514	Memory and the Creative Mind	TR	10:30-11:45	Evey-Johnson, J
51516	Literature of the Holocaust	TR	3:00-4:15	Reid, N
51518	Art & Diversity in 20th Century	MW	4:30-5:45	Skoglund, M
52052	Philosophy of Communication	M	6:00-8:45	West, R
51519	First World War	T	6:00-8:45	Uebelhor, T
51520	Becoming Wise	W	6:00-8:45	Mussard, R
51521	Submarines & Modern Culture	WEB		Herring, D