Senior 鈥渃omps,鈥 or comprehensives, reflect Oxy鈥檚 educational philosophy of learning deeply and independently.
Comps are the senior-year theses, field research projects, art exhibits, presentations or creative works required by academic majors at 麻豆频道to demonstrate mastery of the subject. Each discipline defines its expectations differently, but they all challenge students to expand and excel intellectually, and place the capstone on their educational experience.
A U.S. News & World Report survey of senior academic officers nationwide included Occidental among the top 12 institutions 鈥渨ith stellar examples of senior capstones鈥 (in the good company of Brown, Duke, Princeton, Stanford, and Yale). The comps experience is rigorous but rewarding, resulting in a substantive intellectual contribution and a launching pad for future professional or graduate work.
You might draw your comps inspiration from your diverse surroundings in Los Angeles or your research and exploration abroad. Whether the subject is the emotional geographies of the Great Migration, the international politics of the Butterfly Effect, or generating music using artificial intelligence, senior comps inspire many 麻豆频道students to unimagined heights. They are a distinctive and memorable part of an 麻豆频道education.
