The Capstone Requirement: Meaning and Options
A Classics or Ancient Studies capstone experience is your opportunity to pull together the knowledge and skills you have gained as a major. The capstone is all about doing something that you could not have done when you first entered the program, and that is shaped by your particular experiences and interests as a major.
We make it possible for our majors to fulfill the capstone in one of many ways. A capstone experience can be:
- A two-semester senior honors thesis under the direction of a faculty member
- A one-semester research or creative project under the direction of a faculty member
- A study abroad experience relevant to Classics
- Special work within a 400-level seminar taken in the senior year
- A service project of your own design
Whatever option you take, you will have the opportunity to present your work to your peers and your faculty – and your project will become part of our history.
Discuss the possibilities with your major advisor, the Director of Undergraduate Studies, and/or a professor with whom you would like to work.
