Capstone Project

Course description

Students in the master’s degree in Clinical Neuroscience will gather what they have learned throughout their master’s program and apply it to examine a specific idea, concept or application in clinical neuroscience. This will be accomplished through the Capstone Project that will serve as the culminating academic and intellectual experience of the master’s degree. Before a student prepares the Capstone Project, they must submit a comprehensive proposal that will be reviewed by a professor or instructor at the Carrick Institute. This proposal will include an introduction, theories, hypotheses, scholarly literature review, research methods, proposal alternatives and any other issues relevant to the project proposal. Students will identify a problem in the clinical neurosciences. Using the information gained in their studies, they will develop a hypothesis that will become the capstone proposal. The project will demonstrate the student’s proficiency and mastery in the field of neuroscience. The proposal will contain five sections: introduction, description of the problem, literature review, description of the project and references.

This is where students demonstrate their scholarly work. The student takes the proposal and moves it into a final project that describes its goals, relates the work to what is published in the literature, and explains how those goals connect to the chosen methodology, the outcome of the project, and its conclusions. At all times, the project should integrate the work the student has done throughout the master’s degree.