"The Digital Media Capstone is an immersive course designed to support your journey to finishing your capstone through peer review, community, and reflection. We will be doing a lot of designing, building, planning, reflection, rebuilding…and hopefully have fun while we do it. My hope is that you will emerge from the capstone process with a project that can serve you and your aspirations and a community that will nurture those aspirations for years to come."
Karina Lin-Murphy
"I appreciate the opportunity to work closely with every student in my capstone course and to support them in realizing the creative and expressive potential of computation in their projects. "
Bakhtiar Mikhak
Overview
The capstone course provides you with the preparation for and the opportunity to complete a digital media design project related to your professional interests. Your capstone will have a main focus of (1) web and mobile applications (2) animation, film, or virtual reality, (3) instructional design, or (4) emerging media and technology. Whatever focus you choose, you must have taken more than four courses in the area of your capstone track before enrolling in the precapstone tutorial to prepare yourself for successful completion of your capstone project.
Precapstone Tutorial and Capstone Sequencing
The semester prior to capstone enrollment (no earlier), you register for DGMD E-598 Digital Media Design Precapstone Tutorial. You need to submit the required preproposal form and have it approved in order to remain registered for the tutorial. An approved preproposal demonstrates that you have done enough prior reading and research on your topic to begin the capstone process. See Precapstone Tutorial for more information and Timeline for mandatory preproposal submission deadlines.
The tutorial is not a course in the traditional sense. You submit proposal drafts to your research advisor and schedule individual appointments (ordinarily, during the hours of 9-5) to receive guidance and feedback. You need to make independent progress on the proposal without special prompting from the research advisor. Successful completion of the tutorial ensures that your project plan is fully operational by the start of the capstone course.
You enroll in the capstone as your final, one-and-only remaining course. Due to the heavy demands of the capstone is considered a full-time course. All other degree requirements must be fulfilled so you can draw upon your entire ALM training to produce a final project worthy of a Harvard degree.
Faculty
Bakhtiar Mikhak, PhD
Co-Founder, Media Modifications, Ltd.
Karina Lin-Murphy, EdM
Manager of Faculty Development, Division of Continuing Education, Harvard University
Alexandra Seckar-Bandow, BA, ALM
Video Editor, Verse Video Education
Course Links
Digital Media Design Precapstone Tutorial (DGMD E-598)
Capstone Design Studio (DGMD E-599)