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COURSE SYLLABUS: Capstone Design Project

Course Title:	ED593 - Capstone Design Project
Department:	Education
Instructor:	Sharif Muhammad, MA - E-Mail - Vita
Telephone:	(248) 789-0513
Availability:	9 AM - 7 PM, EST - seven days a week

I am available to you throughout the course. When trying to reach me, please try email first unless it is an urgent situation. I will check my email frequently and respond within no more than 24 hours. If, however, your message is urgent, please feel free to contact me by telephone.

There is no assigned text book. I will provide weekly lectures and you will be reviewing internet sites.

Course Description:

This course is designed to provide a summary to your work in the Masters Degree Program. In this course you will use your prior course work to design an educational project and present it as your final project. This project should take into consideration all of the courses leading to this degree and focus on your personal interest area.

Academic Honesty:

Both Canyon College and I trust that each student will maintain high standards of honesty and ethical behavior. All assignments submitted in fulfillment of course requirements must be the student's own work. Where outside sources are used as references, work submitted must be identified and appropriately cited.

Submission of Work:

This course is divided into five units. Each unit contains a lecture, web reading and one paper. Please spell and grammar check your paper before sending. Double space your work. Put your name, the name of the course and the date of submission at the beginning of your submission.

Please send each unit as a whole – There are no examinations in this course. Your learning will be evaluated through your practical application of the theory in your written work. To ensure that you receive full point value, use specific rather than general examples in your papers.

Unit 1	Review past coursework and begin plan
	Assignment:	Review your past courses in the Masters Degree program Identify one project that you will develop for the purpose of this course. The project will be an educational project designed to be beneficial to a school at a level specified by you. Write a 300 word paper identifying the project you plan to design. Specify your reasons for choosing this project.

Unit 2	Develop and outline
	Assignment:	Develop a 3 page outline in preparation for development of your project. Your final project will be a proposed design for a project to be proposed for implementation in a school or other educational system. The plan should include information from the courses you have taken in your pursuit of this degree. It should be innovative and offer benefit to students. Web Assignment: Search the Web and find three web sites discussing similar projects and review them– submit the web addresses and one page outlining each web site and their relevance to your work

Unit 3	Purpose
	Assignment:	Purpose paper- submit a 4 page paper defining the purpose of your work toward your Masters Degree. Identify the reasons you choose this field and your goals following the completion of the degree. Rough Draft – Submit a rough draft of your final paper. This should include at least 4 references and be submitted in APA format. The paper is submitted for review and recommendations

Unit 4	Schools and ethics
	Assignment:	Identify at least three possible schools that would benefit from the program you have submitted. This may be a hypothetical list made from a review of internet sites of schools in your state. Submit a three page paper identifying the schools and noting why the project would benefit each specific school Prepare a personal statement of ethical purpose for your project. Submit this as a separate project

Unit 5	Final paper and presentation
	Assignment:	Submit your final project. It should incorporate the recommendations of your professor. Include possible obstacles that you might encounter and detail how you will work toward overcoming them. It must be a minimum of 15 pages in length and submitted in APA format Develop and submit a Power Point Presentation (or other slide presentation) of at least 10 slides that present your project. Submit a 1200 word paper discussing attitudes, strategies and techniques used throughout history in distance education. Include a personal evaluation for you, as a distance education student.

Grading:

Unit 1	Paper	250 points
Unit 2	Web Assignment	50 points
	Outline	200 points
Unit 3	Purpose paper	200 points
	Initial rough draft	150 points
Unit 4	School list paper	150 points
	Personal ethics	150 points
Unit 5	Final proposal	300 points
	Final Presentation	150 points
Total available points:		1500

Grade Scale:

1500 - 1450	A
1449 - 1400	A-
1399 - 1350	B+
1349 - 1300	B
1299 - 1250	B-
1249 - 1200	C+
1199 - 1150	C
1149 - 1050	C-
1049 - 1000	D+
999 - 950	D
949 - 900	D-
899 - 000	F