Culminating Experience Project Defense

CE Project Defense picks up where CE Project Development leaves off, completing the CE Project sequence.

Students will work closely with their faculty advisors to complete their culminating experiences—practical, creative, or research projects enabling the students to make contributions to their field of study and to develop their academic and career goals. Meetings between the students and advisors will begin during the first week of the first semester and continue until the final week of the program. Students will present ideas and receive feedback, advice, support, suggestions, guidance, and more from their advisors as they design and execute their culminating experiences and plan their academic and professional careers. Advisors will guide students in meeting the various deadlines and milestones required as students complete their culminating experiences, prepare for graduation, and prepare for their careers. 

In addition, students will meet as a cohort every week in the class course. The class meetings will help students focus and define their culminating experience thesis projects. 

Students will complete the work of their CE projects, prepare their defense materials including videos and A/V presentations, write their CE research and reflection papers, and turn in all their project deliverables to the folders provided by the graduate studies committee.

The course will provide an initial dress run-through of the CE project defense and a final defense in front of a panel of faculty, external panelists, and guest external panelists invited by each student for their individual defense.