Landscape and Urban Studies Capstone
Capstone course where students synthesize LUS experiences, engage with the learning community, and communicate findings through written work and class presentations to address real-world challenges.
Summary
Recent recorded grades — Fall 2025: 3.80 GPA, 90.0% A/AB (n=20 letter grades).
What you’ll be able to do
Synthesize knowledge from various disciplines to address complex design and planning challenges and opportunities.
Identify relevant, reliable, and high-quality research sources appropriate to the subject and discipline.
Make productive use of the writing process, including brainstorming, outlining, drafting, incorporating feedback, and revising, to develop a fledgling idea into a formal paper, presentation, and/or project.
Share community-engaged research, course content, or creative activity in writing and at least one other mode of communication relevant to the discipline. Other modes of communication might include presentations using one or more media, debate, discussion, poster presentations, and other forms of expression that convey course content.
Use knowledge to build empathy and appreciation for the complexities of one’s own and other people’s perspectives.
View issues from multiple perspectives and think critically about their own societies and the larger global community.
Source: UW Guide
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Prerequisites
Course mapDeclared in Landscape and Urban Studies undergraduate program and senior standing
- Declared in Landscape and Urban Studies undergraduate program and senior standing
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- Declared in Landscape and Urban Studies undergraduate program and senior standing
Professors
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Student experience
the class
Recent recorded grades — Fall 2025: 3.80 GPA, 90.0% A/AB (n=20 letter grades).
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Topics
- Real-world challenges and innovative solutions
- Perspectives, empathy, and global community
- Community-engaged research and communication
Skills
- Synthesizing interdisciplinary knowledge for design and planning
- Using the writing process to develop formal papers and projects
- Sharing research and content through multiple communication modes
- Identifying reliable research sources
Grades
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