Describe the gap in or need for expanding/improving the knowledge base in your area of interest.

Capstone Proposal

Before they are written, all capstone topics must be pre-approved. Students will write a brief description of the proposed capstone project, including the following:

Proposed Capstone Project Title: Gripped by the Invisible Monster when Black: While Black Lives Matter, the effects of Covid-19 pandemic has been a heavy cross to bear on African Americans Mental Health.

Type of Project: Critique, Topical Inquiry, Proposed Action Project

Statement of the Problem: What is the rationale for your specific topic? Why is it important academically, professionally, and socially? Describe the gap in or need for expanding/improving the knowledge base in your area of interest. Questions to ask are:
Is it a real issue with genuine controversy and uncertainty?
Can you distinctly identify two positions?
Are you personally interested in advocating one of these positions?
Is the issue narrow enough to be manageable?

Driving Question(s): What are the key questions that most aptly capture your interest in the subject area and provide organization and direction for your project? What question(s) are you writing this paper to answer? Phrase these in the form of questions.

Literature Review/Annotated Bibliography: Although you obviously will not have a complete bibliography at this time, what seminal references (scholarly literature, research, dissertations, journal articles) do you think you will use in this chapter. What will be the subsections of the literature review?
Annotated Bibliography
Examples of annotated bibliographies can be found here: https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/614/03/.

I-Proposed Capstone Project Title:
II-Type of Project: Critique, Topical Inquiry, Proposed Action Project
III- Statement of the Problem: What is the rationale for your specific topic? Why is it important academically, professionally, and socially? Describe the gap in or need for expanding/improving the knowledge base in your area of interest. Questions to ask are: Is it a real issue with genuine controversy and uncertainty? Can you distinctly identify two positions? Are you personally interested in advocating one of these positions? Is the issue narrow enough to be manageable?
IV-Driving Question(s): What are the key questions that most aptly capture your interest in the subject area and provide organization and direction for your project? What question(s) are you writing this paper to answer? Phrase these in the form of questions.
V-Literature Review: Although you obviously will not have a complete bibliography at this time, what seminal references (scholarly literature, research, dissertations, journal articles) do you think you will use in this chapter. What will be the subsections of the literature review?