Junior / Senior Year

Choose Your Direction, We’ll Help You Get There

By your third year at McDaniel, you will have selected at least one major, if not more. Your Junior Writing Experience will serve as a springboard into your profession and in to your senior year when immerse in a Capstone project in your major.

You’ll have at least one writing-intensive course in your major and you’ll learn the specifics of communicating with your peers, whether in biochemistry or psychology, literature or sociology, music or theatre.

You’ll be more than ready to tackle your Senior Capstone project—your in-depth investigation of a topic in each major you have chosen and the crowning feature of McDaniel’s curriculum.  Your capstone will be your first opportunity to express yourself as a professional. Music majors may create an original composition. Biology majors often contribute to a national research initiative in anything from genomics to cancer research. Across all disciplines, students top off their educations with original work in their field—and use this experience as a passport to both career and graduate school.

A Sample of Capstone Projects Class of 2011

Humanities

Danny Hughes — Neil Simon: Respect and Recognition
Brian Appleby — Into the Maw of Madness: Sanity and the Abyss in H.P. Lovecraft
Kelly Whall — The American Soldier in Literature and the True War Story

Science and Mathematics
Bryan Ward — Sudoku puzzle generator that creates puzzles with a unique solution
Adam Dolbey — 3-Dimensional Version of Tetris
Morgan DeHart — Building a signal mixing circuit for measuring the speed of light
Nichole Howard — Sexual polymorphism in a population of Anolis sagrei on San Salvador, Bahamas

Social Sciences

Jeneice Shaw — The Effects of Sexual Orientation, Gender, and Perceived Consent on Perceptions of Rape Victims
Mary Crocamo — Cross-Sex Friendships and Romantic Relationships
Michael Mandel — Exploring whether gender affects the contagiousness of laughter
Nancy Franklin — Parental Involvement Efforts in Middle and High School: Influences on Academic Successes

Performing and Fine Arts
Danielle Long — Music Recital (Voice)
Michael Monaco — Music Recital (Jazz Guitar)
Matt Clise — Music Recital (Percussion)
Michael Phillips — Music Recital (Electric Bass)
Whitney Arkin — Set Design for Streetcar
Maggie Powell — Drama therapy series focusing on Boal's Rainbow of Desire