About
This is the class blog for the online capstone course for the major in Integrative Studies at Northern Kentucky University. The major emphasizes the integration of multidisicplinary methods and approaches to intellectual inquiry, and this course allows students a final opportunity to reflect on how the methods and approaches of multiple disciplines shape the questions that they ask and the answers at which they arrive. Focused through the theme of social class and contemporary culture, this version of the Capstone requires students to read, view, reflect, research, and write - to join the conversation, not only with their classmates but with other scholars and the world around them. As a model for how their academic experiences will allow them to join such conversations, the blog is a tool that brings students out of the “traditional” online classroom and into the “real world” of the internet.
Tonya Krouse is the instructor of this course. She received her Ph.D. in English and American Literature from Brandeis University in 2004, and she is an assistant professor of English at Northern Kentucky University. Her book, The Opposite of Desire: Sex and Pleasure in the Modernist Novel will appear in October 2008.