Course Faculty

The purpose of the capstone is to showcase knowledge and skills accumulated throughout your BSCS degree program. Helping you integrate your accumulative expertise into a passing capstone is the primary responsibility of your assigned C964 course instructor. However, the capstone was designed by WGU with the expectation that the necessary skills have already been mastered. So questions regarding those skills, e.g., coding, debugging, mathematics, and machine learning; may be outside the scope of your assigned course instructor’s expertise (the capstone faculty team supports all capstones in the undergraduate IT college).

Which courses are these skills covered?

See the course map, but there are major gaps. Noteably, machine learning, data processing, and inferential statistics. Tangential skills such as vector calculus and probability are also missing. BUT the true asset of a computer science graduate, is the ability to adapt, learn, and problem solve. Something you’ve done plenty of and should expect to do your entire career.

In cases when that happens, your C964 instructor will help direct you to the correct resource. But given the broad range of approaches, languages, and libraries available to use, it should not be expected to find an available WGU expert on everything. We recommend reviewing available resources before investing time into your project and being aware that WGU resources might be limited when choosing tools outside the scope of those listed.

Who to contact?

C964 Faculty

Understanding the project
Revising returned projects
Topic approval
Planning & resources

C964 CI page

BSCS, Math, & Software Faculty

Debugging Python and Java
Data processing
Data Analytics
Statistics, Math, & AI

BSCS, Math, & Software CI page

Always practice professional communication:

• Use your WGU email (we may not receive emails from outside WGU).

• Provide a subject, your capstone course (we support all IT college capstones), and your program mentor’s name (if not in your signature).

• Clearly state your questions or requests. When contacting non-C964 faculty, provide context and limit questions to the scope of their expertise.