Senior Capstone Committee Member CONTRACT

SA 498.01 Senior Capstone Research & Thesis 

FALL 2016
Jen Pepper . Faculty Advisor 

CAZENOVIA COLLEGE 

Serving as a Committee Member on a Senior Capstone Project

Dear Senior Photo & Studio Arts Committee Members & Professional Contact,
I want to take this time to thank each of you for meeting independently with the studio arts and photograph group of Seniors this Fall term. Your input on both their creative practice and the reading of their Capstone research papers is valued and essential to their successful development in this exciting year long project. 

In the spring, you will again have the opportunity to meet twice, if you are serving as the student’s Faculty Committee member, and once (minimum), as their Professional Contact.  Each meeting will provide the student the opportunity of getting individualized feed back about their creative project as well as their progress on the Capstone research paper. 

You can meet with the student in person which is obviously ideal, or virtually; via Skype, FaceTime, etc., or the student may send you jpgs of their most recent studio practice. You may have a combination of these different forms of delivery throughout the spring term as well. 

As the students Capstone Committee Member you agree to read the student's capstone as it develops throughout the Fall term. Please provide the student with your written comments on content, development, organization, etc. on each draft they submit to you. I am asking that you also sign off on this letter, thus agreeing to serving on the student’s committee. During the fall term you should have the opportunity to read at minimum TWO drafts, once prior to week 7 and the second, prior to week 13. 

In April the Senior Studio Art and Photography class will be defending their thesis research project amongst their BFA Thesis exhibition that you will personally attend. 

This is an excellent time for the student to orally defend their Capstone research papers alongside of their creative output, as well as a time to reflect on their college practice throughout their four years at Cazenovia.
I will need to know your comments of that terms progress. And the GRADE you believe the student should receive for their creative work and presentation of their oral defense.  

My thanks in advance. JEN PEPPER . Faculty Advisor SA498.01 

Please complete, sign and date and return to JEN PEPPER . Faculty Advisor for SA498.01 at Cazenovia College . FALL term 2016 

Additional comments: 

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 Committee Member // Professional Contact please sign and > DATE 

_________________________________________________________________________ Student SA498.01 please sign >> print > DATE