Course Description: WLC 300 orients students to the SWLC majors in Japanese Language and Culture, and Spanish Language and Hispanic Cultures. Students acquire the knowledge to fulfill the requirements and the Major Learning Outcomes (MLOs) for SWLC’s new Bachelor of Arts degrees in Japanese Language and Culture, and Spanish Language and Hispanic Cultures. Students develop individual learning plans. Required for all majors seeking a B.A. degree in Japanese Language and Culture or Spanish Language and Hispanic Cultures.
Course Narrative: Through this course I learned about important information I will need in order to succeed and meet all the requirements of the Spanish Language and Hispanic Culture program. I learned about the opportunities of studying abroad, attending graduate school, how to create a resume and personal statement. All of this will be included in the e-portfolio which will also include all of the classes I've taken at CSUMB and how each one fulfills all of the MLOs. Also, the professors spent plenty of time explaining the process of creating your capstone project and the e-portfolio. With the help of the professors, we are continuing to work on everything to keep up all the project necessary to obtain a B.A degree in Spanish Language and Hispanic Culture. One of the goals is to constantly revise our e-portfolio to make sure we have all of the course narratives and every other page to have a complete e-portfolio. This class fulfills MLO 6, Research and Technology, where we learn basic research techniques that we will use throughout our education at CSUMB. We were able to gain knowledge of correct research methodologies and were able to apply them to our capstone project and many other class projects. We learned which databases to use in order to find the correct sources related to our topic and how to correctly site them whether we're using APA or MLA format for your project. During the capstone project, one of our responsibility is to critically analyze our sources to create or literary review which is a major part of our final project, through this class we got a preview of what that consisted of and the process once we got to the pre-capstone or capstone course.