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[bucheon bum]

I don't know about a capstone exam but my Master's program (in IR) had a capstone project. You had a few different options. Since my concentration was on business, I chose to do a stock valuation of a company (CSX. FYI, it is currently overvalued). Those who focused on politics tended to do the capstone project where you diagnosed a problem in a country's political system and then proposed a solution to it (example: Kenya's tribal divisions are leading to power struggle--->a new constitution). I don't remember what the other 2-3 options were. Basically a capstone project is just a bigger than a normal assigned project/paper.

[paulandsilas]

Our graduate director chose our major professor/thesis adviser for us, but we later had the option of switching. I was with him at first, but I changed to another professor because my topic was more relevant to his area.

[young_clinton]

I know a lot of Universities won't admit a student for a non-thesis Master's unless the student is planning on being in education. One thing you have to consider if you pursue a thesis masters is... you have to be able to come up with good scientific data for your thesis, and sometimes students are not able to do that for one reason or another. It's possible to shift from a thesis to nonthesis degree but sometimes its not easy. You would want to find out about it from the school that you decide to go to.

[jrwhite82]

If you go for the MA in Teaching, you will most likely assemble a teaching portfolio instead of writing a thesis. This portfolio will be designed to adhere to a list of principles that your school wants new teachers to follow. Then you have to prove that you have demonstrated your ability to follow and apply these principles by writing about your internship experience, showing evidence from your classroom and then supporting that evidence with more writing about teaching theory.

This is the one I made last year if you want to see what you might be getting in to.

http://cte.jhu.edu/EP/presentation/init.cfm?key=534A33C4-204A-4282-8C75F6763BACBAA5

[paulandsilas]

My capstone exam consisted of questions from my chosen period of study, 18th century British literature, but the professor also included questions from other periods as well.

[Tundra_Creature]