WLC 400 - WLC Major Capstone |
Spring 2019
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Course 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. (Prereq: (SPAN 300 or JAPN 403 with a C- or better) and (Junior or Senior Standing) Units: 4 Course Files |
Reflective Narrative In WLC 400, alongside other WLC majors students developed and worked on our finalized bachelor’s thesis to write and present our capstones. Myself, and other Japanese students conducted a comparative analysis utilizing existing literature in Japanese, created unique surveys, reviewed our findings, and presented a data analysis as per our group projects in English and Japanese. WLC 400 fulfills MLO 4, Research Methods and Information Technology, and MLO 1, Japanese Language and Communication. From this course and the mentorship of professors and faculty from the World Language and Culture Department, I was able to use all my academic courses from college to create a project that helped me learn about cultural, systemic, and societal differences about a foreign country as well as reflect on my own country. After this course, I want to keep furthering my language abilities and employ the fundamentals of this course into my future career. This course was well supplemented and was connected to the JAPN 403 and 404 courses. In the JAPN 403, Pre-Capstone, we studied how to begin to write a pre-graduate level article, as well as receive constructive feedback from our group members, peers, and professors. Our JAPN 404 course, Advanced Japanese for Presentational Communication, created a healthy environment for students to translate project ideas and concepts into an equally academic tone in Japanese and supplemented our presentational Japanese with advanced colloquialism and syntax. WLC 400 has provided me with a superb learning experience, and I hope to continue my academic writing in graduate school, personal writing, and my future career. |