General Education Capstone Course Event Details and Guideline
Form Event title: History Museum Visit General education
category event should be listed under: Social Sciences SCC
competency addressed by event: - SS: Explain social
institutions, structure and processes across a range of
historical periods, places and/or cultures. - SS: Develop and
communicate hypothetical explanations, predictions and
descriptions of human behavior within an historical, spatial
and/or social context. Guidelines for accomplishment of event: -
Visit one of the listed history museum options and write an
essay about your impressions of the exhibit. - A successful
essay will: - Place the subject or topic of the museum exhibit
in historical context. This means that the student should make
specific reference to the place, time period and/or chronology
in which the topic or subject of the exhibit took place. -
Explain how the exhibit interprets the past. - Identify an
overarching theme of the exhibit. - Describe the exhibit’s
layout an