JAPN 403- Precapstone
Description:
"This course aims to develop an advanced level of academic communication through the formulation of research questions on linguistic and cultural topics, using appropriate research methods and critical thinking skills. Students utilize a variety of information sources to investigate, organize, and analyze the information. Taught in Japanese. (Prereq: JAPN 300 or equivalent)"
In this course, we began to develop ideas for topics that we would ultimately use for our culminating Capstone project that we will later present as graduating student's here at CSUMB. More specifically in this class we began to develop ideas for possible multi-cultural topics that we could explore much deeper through a survey based social research project, the findings which we will present in the target language of Japanese.
Through this particular course, I feel that I was able to fulfill the goals and expectations outlined in MLO 4 (Research Methods and Information Technology) for the following reasons:
As is common when developing both a research topic and questions that you wish to answer with the outlined research, we went through many revisions and peer critiques, from which we received very helpful advice and suggestions which we used to later refine and narrow our topic of that time into a practically surveyable one.
To add further, I also feel that this course fulfills requirements also outlined in MLO 1 (Japanese Language and Communication) because much of the course content, especially towards the latter half of the course was conducted primarily in Japanese, and with that naturally there was the expectation for us to adjust to a academically suited register of Japanese in order to conduct ourselves appropriately in a formal, presentation-style context. This took necessary refining and an understanding of the nuance behind particular vocabulary and grammar, such as the difference between terms that are used in more colloquial contexts as opposed to a more academically suited one.
Description:
"This course aims to develop an advanced level of academic communication through the formulation of research questions on linguistic and cultural topics, using appropriate research methods and critical thinking skills. Students utilize a variety of information sources to investigate, organize, and analyze the information. Taught in Japanese. (Prereq: JAPN 300 or equivalent)"
In this course, we began to develop ideas for topics that we would ultimately use for our culminating Capstone project that we will later present as graduating student's here at CSUMB. More specifically in this class we began to develop ideas for possible multi-cultural topics that we could explore much deeper through a survey based social research project, the findings which we will present in the target language of Japanese.
Through this particular course, I feel that I was able to fulfill the goals and expectations outlined in MLO 4 (Research Methods and Information Technology) for the following reasons:
As is common when developing both a research topic and questions that you wish to answer with the outlined research, we went through many revisions and peer critiques, from which we received very helpful advice and suggestions which we used to later refine and narrow our topic of that time into a practically surveyable one.
To add further, I also feel that this course fulfills requirements also outlined in MLO 1 (Japanese Language and Communication) because much of the course content, especially towards the latter half of the course was conducted primarily in Japanese, and with that naturally there was the expectation for us to adjust to a academically suited register of Japanese in order to conduct ourselves appropriately in a formal, presentation-style context. This took necessary refining and an understanding of the nuance behind particular vocabulary and grammar, such as the difference between terms that are used in more colloquial contexts as opposed to a more academically suited one.
