please see attachment any use of AI will result in automatic 0
Please select a creative idea for your capstone and submit a 3-5 page proposal for preliminary topic approval by your instructor. Please note that the list of suggested topics in the “Resources” folder are just that – suggestions to help you start brainstorming! Your instructor can approve essentially any topic directly related to the field of SPHS that you are passionate about. It is highly suggested you select a topic that best aligns with your future short- and long-term personal and professional goals, and begins an ongoing project you hope to continue to update and modify in your future SPHS career. Please also note that questions asked during employment interviews often relate to how your capstone expertise might best assist a given health and fitness facility, educational institution, medical center or clinic, military unit, research foundation, etc. and thus provide “pitch” for you to show why you are the best candidate to fill a particular job description.
As detailed on the attached grading rubric, please include a title page, introduction, body, and anticipated conclusion(s) using a minimum of 5-7 in-text citations, all of which need to be listed in your reference list using APA style. Please focus on what is novel (new) about your personal “creative” ideas and how they fit within APUS School of Health Science program objectives. Please explain how your unique concepts and philosophies might potentially fill in any “gaps” in the current literature while considering why a potential funding source might provide financial support for your creative ideas as compared to other proposals.
Please note that SPHS697 in the APUS Department of Sports and Health Sciences is an eight-week “Capstone Project” course – not a sixteen-week “Capstone Thesis” which requires independent data collection and a graduate-level committee of more than one capstone professor. To collect data on human subjects, a student and their professor(s) must first apply for APUS Institutional Review Board (IRB) approval, with eight weeks not nearly enough time to gain formal IRB approval (which often requires revision and resubmission), collect data, conduct statistical analyses, etc.
TurnItInanti-plagiarism software will automatically give your submission an originality score (no independent TurnItIn registration required by student) with number of possible submissions set at three for all SPHS697 assignments to enable resubmission following a possible initial high TurnItIn score. The TurnItIn originality score target in SPHS classes is within the range of about 15% – although this may vary in other APUS schools and departments. Please resubmit SPHS697 assignments with initial TurnItIn score above 30% (more than double the 15% target) with this generous extra margin given to account for your cover sheet and reference list. Enabling repeat submissions for TurnItIn purposes eliminates the perceived need by some students to pay for a “pre-check” of a given manuscript via TurnItIn-affiliated websites such as
Citation Machine,
WriteCheck, etc. Please note that APUS supervisors (and possibly outside accrediting agencies) regularly look in on courses to ensure TurnItIn guidelines are adhered to by all instructors. If you receive an elevated TurnItIn score on your first submission, please immediately delete your submission, rewrite your text a bit, and resubmit – nobody will know about initial high scores except your instructor and there will be no penalty whatsoever. Expanding and rehashing portions of your text, adding new content you might not have considered before, and eliminating all direct quotes (even if in parentheses) often substantially reduces TurnItIn scores. Please note that adding more text will increase the ratio of your text relative to your cover sheet and reference list which will be more favorable to your score within TurnItIn algorithms. APUS instructors thank you in advance for understanding that campus-wide TurnItIn expectations need to be consistently enforced to ensure the integrity of your APUS degree and not set a perceived inappropriate precedent for other students in this class or other APUS classes.
