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Capstone Experience

Inquiring with Communities

The Capstone Experience aims to provide an authentic and practical interdisciplinary learning experience where students:

  • Apply academic discipline in a real-world context
  • Engage communities and organizations in planning, implementing and communicating their ideas and concepts
  • Develop collaborative and leadership skills, cultural competency and an awareness of civic values

The learning experience is reflected in well-researched and thoughtful situational analyses, learning journals, written reports and presentations. Capstone projects may take on a variety of forms, such as joint research and programme development, and they have two prominent features: (a) have a strong academic grounding, and (b) undertake a project in partnership with a community or organisation.

Course Eligibility

The Capstone Experience course is a 4 Unit graded undergraduate course with S/U option. It is an Unrestricted Elective (UE) that cannot replace the five courses in the UTCP. If this course clashes with UTCP, the UTCP course must take priority. 

Students should have completed or are en route to completing the University Town College Programme (UTCP), but they may apply to read the Capstone Experience course if they are concurrently reading a remaining course to complete UTCP. Students must be a current CAPTain or a CAPT alumnus, with a CAP of 3.50 and above.
 
Each team comprises three to five students under the guidance of a supervising Fellow. At least half of the team must be current residents in CAPT. The recruitment of students and the formation of teams usually take place in the month before the semester starts.

You can refer to course information for more details on the academic requirements and assessment components for the Capstone Experience course.

Capstone projects involving humans as research subjects will be subject to ethics review by the CAPT Department Ethics Review Committee (DERC). The results from such research may or may not be intended for publication or presentations outside the College. The CAPT DERC will review the Capstone research and determine if it can be exempted or needs to be referred to NUS-IRB for further review. Read the Student’s Guide to Ethics Review for further information.

Scroll down to have a look at some of the previous Capstone experiences or click here for a list of past Capstone projects.

Capstone Experience Timeline

Previous Capstone Experiences

Finding the Rainbows of Life: Exploring Dignity, Inclusion and Meaning amongst Micro Business Academy Families

Dignity, inclusion, and meaning – these are what we start to explore and seek when we complete our studies and move on to the next
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Factors behind food decision-making of lower income households

This Capstone focuses on the factors behind food decision-making by low-income households in Singapore.
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Voltch: Adopting technology for volunteer matching in NUS

This Capstone project aimed to improve the current volunteer matching process for the NUS Disability Support Office (DSO).
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Food For Thought

Food For Thought is a group of environmentally conscious students coming together to raise awareness of the astronomical amount of food waste produced in CAPT-RC4
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Project Kindle+

Project Kindle+ is a mentoring programme for foster youth from Epworth Community Services. The project aimed to develop foster adolescents into independent thinkers through a
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Establishing Relations between Gardeners and their Eating Habits in Toh Yi Community Gardens

There are more than 1,000 community gardens in Singapore and these gardens can provide a range of benefits. The partners from Toh Yi Gardens shared
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