WLC 400- WLC Major Capstone
"Description: Students work with the instructor and WLC faculty advisers to research, synthesize, write and present their Capstone projects. Students will also assemble a Graduation Portfolio reflecting how each MLO was met. This course is required for all Japanese, Spanish and World Languages and Cultures majors."
In this course, we have synthesized all that we have learned from our Japanese Language and Culture major courses as well as general academic knowledge that we have accumulated throughout our academic careers into a culminating project that is known at this university as the Capstone.
For this culminating project, we conducted a social science research project in which we created a bi-lingual Japanese and English survey that's goal was to bring to light perspectives from student's coming from Japanese as well as American backgrounds concerning a culturally, socially rooted topic.
This course ties in with both MLO 1 as well as MLO 4 for the following reasons:
In order to conduct this bi-cultural/bi-lingual survey it was necessary for us to learn the language appropriate to the discourse of conducting surveys, analyzing date findings, as well as conduct literary background research relevant to one's topic in the language relevant to both communities being surveyed (English and Japanese).
Apart from the more meta-language aspects of this course's academic outcomes, our capstone assignment is conducted in groups as opposed to on an individual basis, so learning how to work efficiently with others, learning how to take both criticism and advice from one's peers and teachers constructively in order to creative an overall better product that can stand one it's own as a legitimate research project in the realm of academia.
In this sense, I feel that I as well as my peers fulfilled the academic outcomes and goals that were expected of all of us taking this course, and in our future endeavors will be able to apply what we learned in further areas of education.
"Description: Students work with the instructor and WLC faculty advisers to research, synthesize, write and present their Capstone projects. Students will also assemble a Graduation Portfolio reflecting how each MLO was met. This course is required for all Japanese, Spanish and World Languages and Cultures majors."
In this course, we have synthesized all that we have learned from our Japanese Language and Culture major courses as well as general academic knowledge that we have accumulated throughout our academic careers into a culminating project that is known at this university as the Capstone.
For this culminating project, we conducted a social science research project in which we created a bi-lingual Japanese and English survey that's goal was to bring to light perspectives from student's coming from Japanese as well as American backgrounds concerning a culturally, socially rooted topic.
This course ties in with both MLO 1 as well as MLO 4 for the following reasons:
In order to conduct this bi-cultural/bi-lingual survey it was necessary for us to learn the language appropriate to the discourse of conducting surveys, analyzing date findings, as well as conduct literary background research relevant to one's topic in the language relevant to both communities being surveyed (English and Japanese).
Apart from the more meta-language aspects of this course's academic outcomes, our capstone assignment is conducted in groups as opposed to on an individual basis, so learning how to work efficiently with others, learning how to take both criticism and advice from one's peers and teachers constructively in order to creative an overall better product that can stand one it's own as a legitimate research project in the realm of academia.
In this sense, I feel that I as well as my peers fulfilled the academic outcomes and goals that were expected of all of us taking this course, and in our future endeavors will be able to apply what we learned in further areas of education.
