This course serves as the culmination of the Information and Misinformation minor and the Dominican Curriculum. Based on what they have learned in the core courses of the minor, as well as their other coursework, students will develop tools and strategies for unraveling and addressing misinformation. The precise topic and focus of the capstone project will be left to individual students but must make use of multiple disciplinary lenses, including at least one value-focused lens. Among the things students will produce in this course are a carefully constructed and substantive research paper, an oral presentation of their project, and an e-portfolio. In producing these things, students “close the loop” by developing and evaluating concrete proposals for addressing issues at the heart of the dissemination of information and misinformation.
All other Dominican Curriculum requirements must be met before a student takes DC 473.