Senior Capstone:
All CWL concentrators are required to submit a 10-12 page capstone essay that highlights a thematic and/or methodological aspect of World Literature. For students majoring in English, MLL, or Classics, the CWL capstone essay should be considered a supplement that enhances and broadens the scope of their capstone project in the major. For CWL concentrators majoring in a discipline other than English, MLL, or Classics, the 10-12 page capstone essay is a freestanding paper.
In cases of a written supplement of 10-12 pages, the deadline will be the established due date of the capstone project within the home department (English, MLL, or Classics); in cases of a separate 10-12 page paper for CWL concentrators majoring in a department other than English, MLL, or Classics, that paper will be due at the end of Week 7 in Spring term.
CWL concentrators should consult a CWL affiliate faculty when conceptualizing and writing their paper. While faculty will not take on an active and intensive supervisory role in relation to the CWL capstone essay, they will provide advice and guidance on texts and approaches that the student should consider. The CWL Director will serve as an optional second reader of the capstone papers carried out by CWL concentrators in the home departments of their majors (if English, MLL, or Classics), and in cases of CWL concentrators outside of these primary departments, the capstone essay will be submitted directly to the CWL Director.