Subject: UCAP

Term: Spring 2016

UCAP 395: SAGES Capstone Experience (104/11045)

Whiting, P

UCAP 395 affords students the opportunity to pursue a capstone experience outside the constraints of SAGES capstone courses offered by individual academic departments. Students must identify a project, a mentor and an oversight committee. If the mentor is not a Case faculty member, then the student must also identify a faculty advisor who does hold such an appointment and who will serve as the instructor of record. A capstone experience can take various forms but must include certain elements: critical thinking, regular oversight by the project advisor(s), periodic written and oral reporting of progress, a final written report which describes the project activity (which may be a performance, experiment, student teaching, live case analysis, creative writing endeavor, etc.), and a final public presentation. More details about course policies, including procedures for registering, are available via the SAGES office and web site. UCAP 395 may be taken as a one-semester or a two-semester course for 1-6 credits in any given semester and 3-6 credits total. Permit from Director of SAGES required.

UCAP 395: SAGES Capstone Experience (105/11046)

Holmes, M

The SAGES UCAP 395 Granaries of Memory project will contribute to the Slow Food International efforts to catalog foods and food ways that are in danger of being lost in the modern world. Cleveland, as a refugee resettlement city, offers access to people from a variety of cultures where traditional food and customs are threatened by war and disruption. This project will give students first hand access to refugees who have been resettled in Cleveland and have agricultural backgrounds in their homelands. Through interviews, farming and cooking demonstrations and research, Case students will document and photograph food customs of these several national cultures. This class is ideal for students interested in food of other cultures and learning about interviewing, gaining empathy for, and learning from people with radically different life experiences.