Capstone Projects
This culminating experience provides students with an opportunity to apply their knowledge of applied demography to a research project. The choice of research project topic and exact form will be mutually determined by the faculty mentor and the student. The student will work with a faculty mentor/advisor on a capstone project that will be written up as a capstone report. Students are expected to utilize methods acquired during other courses in the M.P.S. in Applied Demography and apply them to a topic of interest.
The report will be formally presented to peers in the M.P.S. and faculty members at the end of the semester (i.e. final presentation via video-conference). The capstone report must be approved by the faculty mentor/adviser to meet course requirements.
Pathways to a topic
We envision two avenues of selecting a research topics:
Student Initiated – These are topics that the student selects or that is related to his/her employment setting. Students should consult these projects to the program adviser or a prospective mentor from our affiliate faculty or collaborators.
Mentor Initiated – These are projects that are derived from a suggestion from a faculty member.
Capstone Project Repository
This section will be an historic repository of Capstone Documents and Power Point Presentations.