Capstone Experiences

We receive many inquiries about what capstone experiences are possible. Below are some examples that past certificate students have done:

• Conducting an interdisciplinary workshop on an advanced methodological technique
  • Workshops are typically designed to be two or three hours on method-related topics.
  • Students can co-teach a workshop. E.g. Two certificate students taught a workshop on "data collection in the transnational context"
• Serving as a teaching assistant for a graduate-level method course
  • Three students served as teaching assistants for graduate-level method courses, including SOC680, POL605, etc.
• Serving as a methodological resource for a research project
  • One student served as a methodological resource for a research project that developed and fielded an online survey.
• Writing a journal article-length methods paper
  • Papers must primarily focus on research methods
  • Student must be first/lead author
  • We do not require method papers to be published for the capstone. However, the papers must be of high quality that are suitable for publication
• Serving as a graduate research assistant for AMAP
• Participating in an approved Data Mine project

Although the above are examples of past capstone experiences, students can propose their own capstone experience to the AMAP steering committee (AMAP@purdue.edu).