Capstone in MCCM

(3 Credit Hours) · Undergraduate

The Capstone project is designed for students to integrate the scientific understanding of compassion along with some sense of its practical implications in the health professions and helping work in general. The Capstone project should demonstrate an advanced understanding of the phenomenon of compassion from its biological, neuroscientific, social-cognitive, and social science perspectives as well as how this is connected to the way this is manifest or impeded in practical application. The Capstone project will need to demonstrate how actual helping dynamics are reflective of the underlying scientific mechanisms. The Capstone project may focus on a variety of examples of compassionate care in exemplifying how the scientific mechanisms of compassion determine the critical dynamics in clinical or other helping work as well as what is required to sustain this type of work on a long-term basis. The student will be required to do a twenty-page paper of the student's own design integrating the courses and experiences of the CCIM minor. The Capstone project must be pre-approved by the Director or capstone advisor. Successful completion of the Capstone project is necessary to receive the Minor in Compassionate Care in Medicine. Permission required. Fall and Spring. Note: This course counts as a general elective and is used to satisfy the capstone project for the Minor in Compassionate Care in Medicine.