The document discusses encapsulation in object-oriented programming. Encapsulation is the technique of making fields in a class private and providing access to them via public methods, protecting the data from being randomly accessed. It hides the details of how the object works internally while only exposing its behaviors externally. Access modifiers like private, default, protected, and public determine which classes can access fields and methods. The conclusion emphasizes that encapsulation hides how the state is stored and what happens inside behaviors from external classes. Two assignments are provided involving displaying student data and adding additional attributes to a class.