4.1 Students gain knowledge of appropriate research methodologies and are able to apply them in their studies.
4.2. Students use appropriate technologies in research and studies relative to Japanese language and culture.
4.3 Students collect, manage and analyze current and emerging technology-based resources to develop and produce their scholarly work.
Certainly one of my biggest research projects that I have been tasked to do in a formal academic setting has been my culminating Capstone research project. Under the course I have listed below I will go ahead and link my capstone's page if you are interested in seeing what kind of research in particular I conducted.
As a Japanese Language and Culture major at CSUMB, I and one other student from the same program were en-tasked by our department to conduct a cross-cultural comparative survey research assignment. As the two comparable target populations, we decided to choose American and Japanese University students.
When it came to creating research questions and intended outcomes for our research it became considerably tricky because it was important that we created questions that had some kind of a common criteria from which we would be able to base our comparison off of. This aspect became even more challenging, and consequently interesting, in that Japanese and American cultures respectively having some areas in which they are considerably different, it was difficult to find aspects that would be appropriate for comparison.
After having created the survey, distributing it, and collecting the data we proceed to the analysis phase. Our questions weren't simply ones that you could do a purely number based analysis off of consider that we actually created a number of write-in questions for the purpose of this survey. All questions that we wrote for the sake of this survey were informed by the literature review that we conducted prior to its creation.
With having gathered some very interesting results from our data, it was important that we would make some sense and give some structure to this project. Through both courses JAPN 403 and JAPN 404 we received guidance from our instructors on how best to go about making sense of the results we obtained and how to proceed forward with the construction of our culminating capstone presentation and research paper.
Courses
JAPN 403
JAPN 404
Capstone
4.2. Students use appropriate technologies in research and studies relative to Japanese language and culture.
4.3 Students collect, manage and analyze current and emerging technology-based resources to develop and produce their scholarly work.
Certainly one of my biggest research projects that I have been tasked to do in a formal academic setting has been my culminating Capstone research project. Under the course I have listed below I will go ahead and link my capstone's page if you are interested in seeing what kind of research in particular I conducted.
As a Japanese Language and Culture major at CSUMB, I and one other student from the same program were en-tasked by our department to conduct a cross-cultural comparative survey research assignment. As the two comparable target populations, we decided to choose American and Japanese University students.
When it came to creating research questions and intended outcomes for our research it became considerably tricky because it was important that we created questions that had some kind of a common criteria from which we would be able to base our comparison off of. This aspect became even more challenging, and consequently interesting, in that Japanese and American cultures respectively having some areas in which they are considerably different, it was difficult to find aspects that would be appropriate for comparison.
After having created the survey, distributing it, and collecting the data we proceed to the analysis phase. Our questions weren't simply ones that you could do a purely number based analysis off of consider that we actually created a number of write-in questions for the purpose of this survey. All questions that we wrote for the sake of this survey were informed by the literature review that we conducted prior to its creation.
With having gathered some very interesting results from our data, it was important that we would make some sense and give some structure to this project. Through both courses JAPN 403 and JAPN 404 we received guidance from our instructors on how best to go about making sense of the results we obtained and how to proceed forward with the construction of our culminating capstone presentation and research paper.
Courses
JAPN 403
JAPN 404
Capstone