Senior Projects

Early in the fall, seniors have the opportunity to apply for senior projects for the final spring term of their Concord Academy careers.  These full-credit major courses, designed and proposed by the students themselves and approved by a faculty committee, allow seniors to pursue independent courses of study with an interdisciplinary or experiential component.  Projects from recent years include:

• an exploration of staging in Samuel Beckett’s plays from a mathematical perspective
• a study of Boston Common through photography and essay
• historical study of Isadora Duncan through the lens of feminism and dance performance
• study of teenage motherhood (1950-present)
• exploration of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict through the study of children’s literature and writing a children’s book
• historical profile of a grandparent
• experimental study of the causes of mutation in E.coli bacteria
• construction of an original physics engine in Java
• learning to make reeds for bassoon
• construction of an urban garden for a women’s shelter

All projects include a member of the faculty as advisor, and many include an advisor off campus as well.