Integration Knowledge and Capstone Experience

Overview
Knowledge integration areas are designed to help students understand the relationship of other disciplines to their major field and to provide an opportunity to learn how knowledge is applied in a field outside their major. This is a distinctive feature of OU’s general education program. knowledge integration has two areas.

First knowledge applications is designed to encourage students to explore the ways in which knowledge can be applied in areas outside their own field of study. Courses in this component will examine the applications of knowledge in a variety of ways, providing an opportunity for students to compare and contrast methods used in their major with those in another field

Second, the capstone experience is intended to create an explicit link between general education and the student's major or between general education components if the student takes a general education capstone instead of one in their major. The capstone can be interdisciplinary or discipline specific. If taken in the major it must explicitly address the relevance to the major of a combination of at least three of the general education knowledge areas and capacities to the major.

This is an opportunity for methods of inquiry and ethical considerations to be discussed and practiced, and for students to see the relevance of various elements of general education to their future. Although students who change majors may be required to take a second capstone as part of their major, students are only required to meet the general education capstone requirement once.

Both knowledge integration areas focus the student's attention on issues of ethics, the application of knowledge to specific problems, and the relevance of the undergraduate experience, and especially general education, to the student's life.

Learning Outcomes
Capstone Experience
The student will demonstrate:

• appropriate uses of a variety of methods of inquiry and a recognition of ethical considerations that arise
• the ability to integrate the knowledge learned in general education and its relevance to the student’s life and career

Knowledge Applications
The student will demonstrate:

• how knowledge in a field outside of the student’s major can be evaluated and applied to solve problems across a range of applications
• knowledge of the personal, professional, ethical, and societal implications of these applications

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