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Wynn:

Hi, my name is Wynn Yarbrough. I am the Director of the Interdisciplinary General Education Program at the University of the District of Columbia

Kim:

And I’m Kim Crews, Assistant Director of the Interdisciplinary General Education Program.

Wynn:

The University of the District of Columbia is the only public institution of higher education in the nation’s capital and the only urban public land grant university in the United States. Our mission includes a commitment to building a diverse generation of competitive, civically engaged scholars and leaders. Our students are trained to become critical and creative thinkers, problem solvers, effective communicators, and engaged, service-driven leaders. Much of this preparation comes from the Interdisciplinary General Education Program.

Our general education program includes coursework in Composition, Oral Communication, Critical Thinking, Ethics, Quantitative Reasoning, Environmental Science, Diversity, Civics, and Technology. The program builds on the coursework, integrated and interdisciplinary, culminating in the Capital Capstone Course.

Kim:

The Capital Capstone Course emerged from a General Education overhaul in 2010. Using the American Association of Colleges and Universities research and guidelines as well as the Liberal Education and America’s Promise, a national advocacy, campus action and research initiative, the Capital Capstone Course brings the practice, demonstration, and integration of the IGEP to bear on issues that face our region, our nation, and the world by partnering with district agencies, nonprofits, educational groups, and a host of other organizations teams of UDC students deliver problem-solving proposals and action plans.

Wynn:

The Capital Capstone Course is a year-long course. During the fall semester, August to December, students establish teams, choose a project and partner, develop a proposal as well as conduct research centered on a local, regional, national, or international issue. Students bring together much of the process thinking and skills from the various IGED classes to working in these teams, on the proposal, reflections, interviews, responses to partners, and those involved and affected by the work they do. During the spring semester, January through May, students implement their work plans and the proposals agreed upon in the Fall. This work has been as various as developing white papers to collecting survey data for analysis, from creating PR campaigns and app development to providing education training for community members on a variety of issues in the DMV. The students follow the outcomes and deliverables of the proposal created in the fall and present on their work during the last weeks of the spring semester.

Kim:

Our partners and interested partners cover a range of areas- from Safe Shores and educating the public on child sexual abuse to partnering with the College of Agriculture Urban Sustainability and Environmental Science in awareness campaigns and lobbying the District of Columbia City Council on the dangers of food deserts. Future partnering with the Washington Area LGBQT Council, Miriam’s Kitchen, ONEDC, and the Smithsonian National History Museum will result in action-oriented solutions to issues that affect the DMV, from Diversity Initiatives to working with tenant associations in housing education teams.

Wynn:

Our partners are supported by the University and the instructors through the course of the year. As a partner or sponsor, you will communicate with team members through emails, phone calls, as well as formal review of their proposal in the fall semester, during the spring, when students initiate their action plans and the project’s completion at the end of the spring semester in May. Finally, our partners or sponsors participate in a final presentation to provide feedback in a summative fashion for the Capital Capstone team partner.

Kym:

What surprises our partners most is how a diverse Capital Capstone team brings a wealth of skills and experiences not possible in an internship or volunteer activity. The Capstone teams are problem solvers, intentionally researching, collecting data and feedback, and examining and acting with solutions to issues their partners need help addressing. Often, our partners are able to expand services and programs because of the work of their Capital Capstone teams.

Wynn:

Please visit our website https://www.udc.edu/general-education/ for more information about the Interdisciplinary General Education Program and the Capital Capstone Course at the University of the District of Colombia where are students are achieving their highest level of human potential.