Early in your education, explore the disciplines you are most interested in, those that might allow you the type of career that most excites you.
You will need a faculty mentor from each of your two content areas so get to know your professors in your courses and discuss with them some of your ideas about a capstone paper or project.
There are a lot of opportunities to get involved in extracurricular activities that will help you to further expand your interests beyond your courses. Whether it is undergraduate research, theatrical productions or internships, each of these experiences can enhance your academic experience within your two content areas.
In your final year at UVU, you will work with three faculty mentors on your capstone paper or project proposal. This proposal will combine your two content areas in ways that should propel you to the next stage of your life, whether that is within a dynamic workplace or at a leading graduate school.
With an approved capstone proposal, the next semester you will execute on that paper or project. Working closely with your three faculty mentors, you will complete your capstone with an oral defense. Once completed, you will have a product that you can take to an interview, or to a bank to get a loan for your new business, or to include in your graduate school application.
The Integrated Studies degree requires the completion of a two-semester capstone paper or project. This should be a challenging, rewarding process that allows you to explore your two content areas. Most of the capstone papers and projects of our former students are stored and saved either within Integrated Studies (CB 311) or in the UVU library archive. If you would like to look through them, or are looking for a specific combination of content areas, we have created an index to help you find them.
During your Capstone I course your primary objective will be to create an approved proposal for your paper or project. Part of this process includes finding faculty mentors from each of your content areas. These mentors will need to sign off on your thesis proposal.
Examples of a Thesis/Project Proposal
*Note - after signing your portion of the form, you will need to include the name and email address for each of your faculty mentors, so the form gets routed to them for signatures.
Capstone II takes place as an independent study course with your Integrated Studies faculty mentor in collaboration with your two mentors from your content areas. In collaboration with your mentors, at the end of the semester, you will schedule an oral defense of your nearly completed capstone paper or project.
