- To tie together students’ coursework in sustainability studies and offer opportunities to synthesize, reflect, and build on what you have learned in your sustainability related coursework.
- To create a coherent intellectual community and classroom experience for SS majors and minors. Due to the interdisciplinary nature of the BASS program, students may not have many opportunities to interact with other majors and minors. The senior capstone provides that opportunity.
- To learn about the relations between environmental and social values, on the one hand, and related practices, on the other. Course readings, assignments, and activities will examine the complex relations between ideas and actions and the ways these affect efforts to achieve environmental and social sustainability.
- To complete a substantial final project, individually or in a small group, that analyzes a current sustainability related problem and proposes evidence-based, intellectually rigorous, and creative solutions to it.
Note: Previously, IDS 4942 involved an internship. As we update the major, we are separating the senior capstone class and the internship experience. BASS majors and minors are still encouraged to complete an internship, which you may do by taking IDS 4940 to participate in the Active Learning Program offered by the Center for Adaptive Innovation, Resilience, Ethics, and Science. For more information about the Active Learning Program, please contact the ALP coordinator, Dr. Glen Billesbach, at gbillesbach@ufl.edu.
To Enroll
Enrollment in the Capstone course is departmentally controlled. To become enrolled, you must receive permission from the BASS coordinator, Dr. Anna Peterson. When you are ready to register (in the fall before your final spring semester), please email annap@ufl.edu to request permission to register.