Curatorship Program Capstone Enrollment Form
This form should be used as a guide when having conversations with those involved with your capstone experience.  It is also used to document your capstone credits with the Curatorship Program.

This form should be completed after the following have been identified:
- Intended capstone project/experience
- Faculty Advisor (this may or may not be the faculty advisor serving as your mentor in the Curatorship Program)
- Collection & collection supervisor
- Academic Responsibilities

If you need assistance identifying any of these items, please email askcur8@indiana.edu.

Please submit this form at least one month before you register for the capstone credit.

If the department in which you enroll for course credit has its own practicum/fieldwork form, you may submit that paperwork in place of the Curatorship form to askcur8@indiana.edu.

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Email *
First Name *
Last Name *
Term of Enrollment (e.g. Spring 2024) *
Tentative Project Title
Collection
What do you anticipate will be your weekly work schedule?  This includes time in/with a collection/gallery/library/museum as well as time with your faculty advisor on readings and/or meetings.
Capstone Course Number
When identifying a course number for your capstone, you should use the course number scheduled by the academic department that most-closely aligns with your academic discipline (AADM, ARTH, FOLK, HIST, ILS, etc.).  Oftentimes, academic departments have forms similar to this you need to submit before you are approved to register for their courses.  If an academic department's form is extensive, we understand you might not want to submit a seemingly-redundant form.  In those cases, please submit the academic department's form to askcur8@indiana.edu or drop off a copy in the University Graduate School (Wells Library, Fifth Floor, East Tower).

When academic department course numbers are not available, or if you are unable to register for one for any reason, we have a Curatorship Program specific course number you can use: GRAD-U 600.  GRAD-U 600 is scheduled each semester, and registration requires instructor's consent.  The Curatorship Program staff director is listed as the instructor of record but is instructor of record in name only.  The staff director receives your course grade from your faculty advisor and updates the grade roster on behalf of each faculty advisor.

Course Number
Credit hours requested for the course (Approximately 45 hours per semester are required per (1.0) credit.  Therefore, three credit hours = 9 hours work as described above/week average/15 weeks).
Capstone Experience/Project
Your capstone experience is a practicum with a unique outcome: an original project, based on original work carried out in your selected collection. This project, the equivalent of an article-length research project, may take conventional written form, or may instead be realized as an exhibition, public program series, collection initiative, online finding aid, or other substantial work. You will determine your capstone project in advance through discussion with your selected workplace supervisor and faculty advisor. Once completed, the capstone is presented publicly before a faculty review committee.

Collection Supervisor
What is your project summary (what will your project look like; what will be its content)?
What is your plan of work for the capstone (how will you get it done; what key steps will you take along the way)?
What is your distinctive contribution (whom do you hope to reach with your project, and what will you offer them that has not been seen before)?
Academic Responsibilities
Academic responsibilities are determined by your faculty advisor perhaps in conjunction with a collection supervisor (in some cases, your faculty advisor and your collection supervisor could be the same person).  

Faculty Advisor for this course (may/may not be your Curatorship Program faculty advisor/mentor)
Readings/References/Bibliography (n/a if not applicable)
Written or Other Work (such as precedents or comparisons; n/a if not applicable)
Meeting Schedule (when you will meet with your faculty advisor to discuss and review your readings, professional responsibilities, and anything else related to this course)
Next Steps
After submitting this form, it will be routed to the Curatorship Program and then distributed to the Curatorship Program faculty director via email.  It will be returned to your IU email if there are any questions or concerns, and you then need to update the form per the comments and re-submit.  If the faculty director has no questions or concerns, the form will be emailed to the faculty advisor and collection supervisor; they will be asked to affirm the responses you submitted.  The form will be returned to you via email if either person has clarifying comments.

The final form will be filed with the Curatorship Program, and you will receive a copy of the approved capstone form via your IU email.

Be sure to register for the course listed on this form; submitting this form is not formal course enrollment.

Upon conclusion of the course:
- you are required to present your capstone experience to your peers.  This is an opportunity for you to develop your presentation skills as well as learn from others (all Curatorship Program students with a practicum or capstone in the same semester as you will also present their experiences).  The date/time of this presentation will be arranged early in the semester so you can note it in your schedule.
- your faculty advisor may confer with your collection supervisor, if applicable, on your final grade and provide your final grade to the appropriate academic department or the Curatorship Program staff director.

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