{"id":1794,"date":"2025-05-02T12:09:49","date_gmt":"2025-05-02T16:09:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/classical-medieval\/?page_id=1794"},"modified":"2025-05-02T13:55:31","modified_gmt":"2025-05-02T17:55:31","slug":"cms-senior-capstone-examples","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/classical-medieval-studies\/cms-senior-capstone-examples\/","title":{"rendered":"CMS Senior Capstone Examples"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

A. How to develop and narrow the scope of a research project<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n

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    1. GENERAL AREA: A student is interested in the representation of children in Greek tragedy. Their advisor suggests they consider Euripides.<\/li>\n
    2. INITIAL OBSERVATIONS: The student observes that children are frequently <\/span>killed <\/span><\/i>in many Euripidean plays. In <\/span>Bacchae<\/span><\/i>, Agave kills her son, Pentheus. In <\/span>Hecuba, <\/span><\/i>Hecuba kills King Polymestor\u2019s two sons. In <\/span>Trojan Women<\/span><\/i>, the Greeks kill the Trojan prince Astyanax. In <\/span>Iphigeneia at Aulis<\/span><\/i>, Agamemnon sacrifices his daughter Iphigeneia. The student tries to explain why filicide is a repeating motif in Euripidean tragedy. They study the period in which Euripides lived.<\/span><\/li>\n
    3. DEVELOPMENT OF THESIS STATEMENT: This thesis explores how filicide in Euripides\u2019 plays <\/span>Medea<\/span><\/i>, <\/span>Bacchae<\/span><\/i>, and <\/span>Iphigeneia at Aulis<\/span><\/i> registers Euripides’ criticism of the damage to Greece\u2019s youth during the Peloponnesian War. The thesis title is <\/span>The Social Significance of Filicide in Three Plays of Euripides.<\/span><\/i><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n

      In sum, the student transformed a general interest in children in tragedy to an examination of Euripides’ depictions of children murdered by their parents. They then narrowed their focus to three plays and developed a hypothesis about the reason for this repeated motif in Euripides\u2019 plays.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

      B. An example of a creative capstone project<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

      A student in CMS interested in theater and theater history took a play-writing workshop AND a Latin class in which they read Seneca\u2019s Hercules Furens.<\/em> For their senior capstone project, they wrote an essay on Seneca\u2019s Hercules Furens<\/em> that focused on how the play treated masculinity and introduced their adaptation of the play set in Lewiston, Maine, after a mill closure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      C. An example of two theses on one topic for double majors<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

      Students with two majors may complete two one-semester theses in each unit that address the same topic. A student who majored in CMS and Japanese Studies compared honor and masculinity among Japanese samurai and Roman gladiators. They wrote a one-semester thesis on honor and masculinity in samurai culture in Asian Studies and a one-semester thesis on honor and masculinity among Roman gladiators in CMS.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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