Senior Experience Coda Checklist
The Senior Experience Coda course provides an opportunity for
- Ownership
Students must find or design an opportunity to take ownership of their own educational experience and pursue additional steps to integrate their many experiences at Skidmore. - Relevance
Students will connect to the broader world, which may mean the broader world of academic discourse and/or the world outside of Â鶹ŮÀÉ, - Integration Students in the Coda will consciously and reflectively examine their broad and unique liberal arts education.
- Creativity
Students in the Coda will produce original work and engage with individual ideas—in analysis, invention, or creation—in all fields.
The Senior Experience Coda course is (one or more of the following)
- Thesis/capstone
Senior thesis projects or capstone courses/capstone experiences that require significant research and writing - Maturity-level
Existing maturity-level courses that require substantial engagement with original research, in-depth analysis, service learning, and/or civic engagement with a focus on integrative learning - Practicum Practicum experiences within a major (e.g., an Education Studies major may satisfy this requirement with the teaching semester)
- Integrative learning
A one-credit add-on to an existing 3 or 4 credit course that requires the student to focus on integrative learning, work in collaborative setting with peers and faculty, and present a final product that satisfies the three Coda themes - Other
A Coda course that is specifically designed by a faculty member to invite students who do not choose to take on individual research or practicum experiences to engage with the three themes of the Coda