WLC 400: WLC Major Capstone
Course Description:
Students work with the instructor and WLC faculty advisors to research, synthesize, write and present their Capstone projects. Students will also complete a Graduation ePortfolio reflecting how each MLO was met. This course is required for all Japanese Language and Culture, and Spanish Language and Hispanic Cultures majors.
Students work with the instructor and WLC faculty advisors to research, synthesize, write and present their Capstone projects. Students will also complete a Graduation ePortfolio reflecting how each MLO was met. This course is required for all Japanese Language and Culture, and Spanish Language and Hispanic Cultures majors.
MLO Met:
MLO 6: Research and Technology
MLO 6: Research and Technology
Course Narrative:
To fulfill the requirements for Major Learning Outcome (MLO) 6, requiring students to learn and use appropriate research and technology methods to collect, manage, and analyze technology-based resources to develop and produce scholarly work; I took the course WLC 400: WLC Major Capstone.
In WLC 400 we continued that work that had been started in WLC 300 and SPAN 300- we continued to work on our e-portfolios and continued the research/preparation of our capstone project. In collaboration with my capstone advisor and group, we closely analyzed the essays: “The Day of the Dead” and “The Dialectic of Solitude” by Octavio Paz, to understand how Mexicans perceived death and the importance that is tied to death. The lense of our study was themes that were recurring in the essays: Day of the Dead and ancient influences, Mexican and universal identity, and solitude, which culminated in our essay: “The Meaning of Death in two essays from The Labyrinth of Solitude by Octavio Paz.” To complete this project, my group and I picked on research methods that were learned in previous classes to help fill any gaps between our knowledge, build on connections we made, but also to support finding that we made. The final product of this project made me realize all the work and collaboration that is necessary to complete such a project. From deciding on a theme to explore, to finding literature to review, to putting everything together, I have explored different technologies that are useful in research (e.g. online databases, Google Doc features, etc.) to produce a scholarly source.
To fulfill the requirements for Major Learning Outcome (MLO) 6, requiring students to learn and use appropriate research and technology methods to collect, manage, and analyze technology-based resources to develop and produce scholarly work; I took the course WLC 400: WLC Major Capstone.
In WLC 400 we continued that work that had been started in WLC 300 and SPAN 300- we continued to work on our e-portfolios and continued the research/preparation of our capstone project. In collaboration with my capstone advisor and group, we closely analyzed the essays: “The Day of the Dead” and “The Dialectic of Solitude” by Octavio Paz, to understand how Mexicans perceived death and the importance that is tied to death. The lense of our study was themes that were recurring in the essays: Day of the Dead and ancient influences, Mexican and universal identity, and solitude, which culminated in our essay: “The Meaning of Death in two essays from The Labyrinth of Solitude by Octavio Paz.” To complete this project, my group and I picked on research methods that were learned in previous classes to help fill any gaps between our knowledge, build on connections we made, but also to support finding that we made. The final product of this project made me realize all the work and collaboration that is necessary to complete such a project. From deciding on a theme to explore, to finding literature to review, to putting everything together, I have explored different technologies that are useful in research (e.g. online databases, Google Doc features, etc.) to produce a scholarly source.
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