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.
Credit to CSUMB Catalogue.
COURSE NARRATIVE:
This course was taken as part of the requirements to graduate as part of the Spanish Language and Hispanic Cultures major during my final semester at CSUMB, Spring 2020. The main objective of this course was to continue the efforts begun during SPAN300, with our graduation Capstone project. This class was taught alongside the Japanese students, but was frequently divided as our projects and requirements diverted.
In addition to working on the Capstone project we also spent a sizable amount of time working on this website, the Graduation ePortfolio. This element was started nearly two years before, doing WLC300. Through the semesters we were expected to provide narratives on each course to allow us to reflect on the progress we gain with each course. Then we build on these narratives to then create reflective narratives on each Major Learning Objective (MLO). The end goal for this ePortfolio is to create a tool to showcase the experience we have gained as part of the World Language and Cultures department at CSUMB.
The Capstone Project was a year long effort between myself and my teammate, where we researched deeply into our research topic. Our project was heavily invested in the analysis of two novels (El Vampiro de la Colonia Roma by Luis Zapata and Salón de Belleza by Mario Bellatín) to create an assessment of the representation of queer men in Mexican society as projected through these two novel's monologue styles. Additional aspects studied were the spaces that demonstrated the marginalization experienced by these groups of society and the language that was utilized to and by the LGBT+ community. This whole project was inspired by the desire to create a positive impact towards the consciousness of society towards these groups of individuals. Evidence of the efforts of this project can be found in the Capstone section of this cite.
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.
Credit to CSUMB Catalogue.
COURSE NARRATIVE:
This course was taken as part of the requirements to graduate as part of the Spanish Language and Hispanic Cultures major during my final semester at CSUMB, Spring 2020. The main objective of this course was to continue the efforts begun during SPAN300, with our graduation Capstone project. This class was taught alongside the Japanese students, but was frequently divided as our projects and requirements diverted.
In addition to working on the Capstone project we also spent a sizable amount of time working on this website, the Graduation ePortfolio. This element was started nearly two years before, doing WLC300. Through the semesters we were expected to provide narratives on each course to allow us to reflect on the progress we gain with each course. Then we build on these narratives to then create reflective narratives on each Major Learning Objective (MLO). The end goal for this ePortfolio is to create a tool to showcase the experience we have gained as part of the World Language and Cultures department at CSUMB.
The Capstone Project was a year long effort between myself and my teammate, where we researched deeply into our research topic. Our project was heavily invested in the analysis of two novels (El Vampiro de la Colonia Roma by Luis Zapata and Salón de Belleza by Mario Bellatín) to create an assessment of the representation of queer men in Mexican society as projected through these two novel's monologue styles. Additional aspects studied were the spaces that demonstrated the marginalization experienced by these groups of society and the language that was utilized to and by the LGBT+ community. This whole project was inspired by the desire to create a positive impact towards the consciousness of society towards these groups of individuals. Evidence of the efforts of this project can be found in the Capstone section of this cite.
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