Senior Capstone Project:

 

During SPHE 490 you will be working on your Senior Capstone Project.  The senior project is designed to place Sports and Health Sciences degree students in the role of the decision maker.  Each individual project is based on realistic scenarios and situations in multiple aspects of sports and health science businesses that involve a particular company, event, or cause.  The objective of each Capstone Project is to require students to research information relevant and current in today’s sports and health science industry, make decisions that impact sport organizations, and apply theory to practice.

Capstone Projects will be provided within the specific concentration areas of Coaching Studies, Exercise Science, and Fitness and Wellness Professional Studies. Each student will select a project related to their concentration within the Sports and Health Sciences degree program. If your concentration is “General”, then you are allowed to select the Capstone Project that applies best to your career focus. The Capstone Project will focus on an individual situation that allows students to research and analyze information to provide a comprehensive presentation containing creative solutions.  The presentation should demonstrate an inclusive understanding of program level objectives, key coaching, exercise science, fitness and wellness, and sports and health science concepts, critical thinking, constructive analysis, ability to make executive level decisions, and overall ability to write efficiently.

Your Senior Capstone Project Reference Page and in text citations MUST be written in APA style.  Please refer to the 6^th Edition of the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (APA), the Center for Teaching and Learning Student Resources area, and/or http://www.apastyle.org/ for assistance. There are also various documents and tools in the online classroom related to APA to help you along the way.  Your Capstone Project format can be chosen based on the best way to showcase and display your work.  For example, an employee manual in Microsoft Word, an employee schedule in Excel, a YouTube video to provide a training procedure, and a Power Point presentation for a facility plan.  You have a great deal of latitude with how your Capstone Project is presented and what appears inside.  Ensure it is professional, yet maintain the creative aspects necessary to advance your presentation.

Capstone Project Objectives

 

• Require students to research information current to today’s industry.
• Make strategic decisions that impact sport organizations.
• Apply theory to practice.
• Enable students to execute creative solutions.
• Demonstrate critical thinking.
• Build/develop constructive analysis.
• Demonstrate an ability to make executive level decisions.
• Demonstrate ability to write efficiently.
• Provide examples of leadership.
• Establish methods of management that promote teamwork.

Fitness and Wellness Professional Studies
            You have been hired by a small rural community, or an urban neighborhood. You will be working with this specific community’s Department of Social Services, Local Recreation Department, Community YMCA, or other Private Organization. Your job is to implement Healthy People 2020 Health Objectives by choosing 4 of the topic areas that will allow you to implement and create 4 fitness and wellness programs.  These topic areas should be specific to the fitness and wellness needs of your chosen community/neighborhood.  Your 4 programs must be able to showcase your chosen HP2020 objectives are being met.

Using the Wellness Continuum’s six dimensions of wellness (Fahey, Insel, & Roth, 2013), and the Process of Change Model (Prochaska, DiClemente, & Norcross, 1992) develop specific strategies for improving overall fitness and wellness in your specific community through your designed programs.  You have a budget that you must create and adhere to.  Budgets must start off small, and include your salary.  The only requirement for additional funding is that you be able to show improvements in the population’s overall health as a direct result of your programs, strategies, and actions.  Use the HP2020 to gather assessment ideas. You will present your proposed plan to your boss.  You are seeking program approval and future funding.

The following sources are at your disposal.

http://slideplayer.com/slide/5292948/(Slide presentation using Chapter 1 of Fayhe, Insel, & Roth, 2013)

https://www.healthypeople.gov/2020/topics-objectives Link to Healthy People 2020 topics and objectives.

The following links are to the Transtheroretical Model, or Behavior change Model by Prochaska, DiClemente, & Norcross, 1992
https://www.prochange.com/transtheoretical-model-of-behavior-change

In Search of How People Change
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1329589

 

 

Requirements For Capstone Project Submission

 

Capstone Project: Preliminary Outline

 

For your first Capstone Project assignment you are to review the appropriate scenario for your concentration and begin collecting data on a specific topic for the project.  A preliminary outline of your Capstone Project topic is due by the end of week 2.

For the week 2 assignment, it is absolutely essential that you read, study, and become familiar with the process and requirements of the Capstone Project BEFORE you begin your outline. Give yourself enough time to write the path and establish initial resources for your scenario. It is important that you read and reflect on the content and do not rush through it.

Additional hints for successful organization of your Capstone Project…

• Identify the scenario (capstone scenario) – this is pretend. You are pretending you have this job and need to explain your project to your boss. You and your boss will present this project once you complete it. (we are pretending, use your imagination).
• Review and prioritize the information
• Select specific information from the scenario and categorize it according to people, place, program, order of events, etc.
• Proofread your work

 

For week 2’s assignment submit your formal Capstone Project Topic along with a preliminary outline of your presentation.

This should include:

1. Title Page
2. Table of Contents (place holder at this time)

• Basic structure content outline

1. Reference Page:

*Sources must be submitted in proper APA formatted style. (A variety of sources are required and 5-10 sources max at this time)

*Reference section should consist of brief 2-5-sentence description of source and why it is necessary to your case study.

 

Save your Document as YOURNAME_SPHE490_CP_Topic_Outline.doc 

 

 

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