Digital Media Design Precapstone Tutorial

This tutorial helps students develop an academically strong capstone proposal. It is mandatory for candidates in the Harvard Extension School Master of Liberal Arts, digital media design, who wish to register for DGMD E-599 in the upcoming fall term. The tutorial guides students to identify a topic from a variety of industries and communities, review the literature, formulate a research question, and develop appropriate methods to answer the question. The tutorial is not a course. It is structured advising, one-on-one with the instructor. Through this guidance, students declare their intent to complete the capstone in the subsequent term, while spending the current term developing their research topic and design. By completing online assignments and submitting capstone proposal drafts to the instructor, as well as participating in 15- to 30-minute individual appointments (by phone, video-conference, or in-person, ordinarily held during the day, 9 am-5 pm), students conceptualize, plan, develop, and finalize a capstone proposal. Successful completion of each activity in the tutorial ensures that their project is fully operational by the start of next semester's capstone course.