During SPHE 490 you will be working on your Senior Capstone Project. This Senior Capstone Project is an additional and separate project from the Personal Portfolio. The Senior Capstone Project is not a traditional Capstone Project but one that is designed to place Sports and Health Sciences degree students in the role of the decision maker. You have been “hired” and given a “job/project” to complete. Each individual project is based on realistic scenarios and situations in multiple aspects of sports and health science businesses that involve a particular company, event, or cause. The objective of each Capstone Project is to require students to research information relevant and current in today’s sports and health science industry, make decisions that impact sport organizations, and apply theory to practice.
Capstone Projects will be provided within the specific concentration areas of Coaching Studies, Exercise Science, General, and Fitness and Wellness Professional Studies. Each student will select a project related to their concentration within the Sports and Health Sciences degree program. If your concentration is “General”, then you are allowed to select the Capstone Project that applies best to your career focus. The Capstone Project will focus on an individual situation that allows students to research and analyze information to provide a comprehensive presentation containing creative solutions. The presentation should demonstrate an inclusive understanding of program level objectives, key coaching, exercise science, fitness and wellness, and sports and health science concepts, critical thinking, reflective practice, constructive analysis, ability to make executive level decisions, and overall ability to write efficiently.
APA 7th Edition Formatting
Your Senior Capstone Project Reference Page and in text citations MUST be written in APA style. Please refer to the 7th Edition of the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (APA), the Center for Teaching and Learning Student Resources area, and/or http://www.apastyle.org/ for assistance. There are also various documents and tools in the online classroom related to APA to help you along the way.
Capstone Project Tools
Your Capstone Project format should use a variety of tools to showcase your work. The meat of the project should be in a word document that points the reader “your boss” to the intended document for clarity. The additional tool choice should be based on the best way to showcase and display specific sections of your work. For example, an employee manual in Microsoft Word, an employee schedule in Excel, a YouTube video to showcase a training procedure, or a Power Point presentation for a workout plan.
Power Points are not recommended as a formatting tool for the entire Capstone project. (The reason is that power points are meant to be conversations starters – see any TedTalk video for reference, each power point slide enhances what the speaker is saying, but does not speak for the speaker – meaning each power point slide should not be a flyer containing all of the necessary information within a topic heading. Its too much information on one slide.) Despite all of this, if you would like to use a power point slide presentation within your Capstone Project you must attain approval for its use. And your initial submission and final submission must contain an accompanying word document where each power point slide’s talking point is fully addressed using 250-500 words per slide.
You have a great deal of latitude with how your Capstone Project is presented and what appears inside. Ensure it is professional, yet maintain the creative aspects necessary to advance your project.
Capstone Project Objectives
Require students to research information current to today’s industry.
Make strategic decisions that impact sport organizations.
Apply theory to practice.
Enable students to execute creative solutions.
Demonstrate critical thinking.
Build/develop constructive analysis.
Demonstrate an ability to make executive level decisions.
Demonstrate ability to write efficiently.
Provide examples of leadership.
Establish methods of management that promote teamwork.
