Course Description: Directed toward Spanish majors preparing for their Capstone experience, this course aims to guide the student in the process of completing a capstone proposal and initiating the preliminary steps toward the graduation ePortfolio. The ePortfolio provides evidence that a student is making satisfactory progress toward meeting the Core requirements and Major Learning Outcomes (MLOs) for the Spanish B.A.
This course was the introduction to our two semester journey of working on our final research project known as capstone. This course started off with an overview of the research method process and helped us explore possible research topics for the capstone. Of course the ultimate goal of the course was to get us started on capstone and develop a research topic and questions, but it focused on learning to find reliable research. Many times topics do not have enough peer reviewed research completed on certain topics or anything remotely similar. I started off wanting to do research on a linguistic based topic of idioms but the development of a survey was far too complicated and would bait biased responses. At this point my capstone partner and I decided it would be best to do a literature based capstone due to our second topic of interest, the LGBT+ community within Latin America. We started off general wanted to compare the lesbian experience with the homosexual male experience, but learned we were a bit over our heads chasing to research two heavy topics. We focused in on the male experience and from there started finding books about the queer male experience. We came across this commonality of realistic fiction monologues written in Mexico about this topic and went from there. We researched countless novelas and settled on two of the most popularly reviewed yet powerful novelas. We decided to research the queer male experience in the books El vampiro de la colonia roma by Luis Zapata (1979) and Salón de Belleza by Mario Bellatín. We finished the semester by collecting a list of peer reviewed journals for our literary review and a planner of steps we were going to take to complete the research. Our final presentation for the course can be found here.
Course Narrative: This course met MLO1 & MLO6.
This course was the introduction to our two semester journey of working on our final research project known as capstone. This course started off with an overview of the research method process and helped us explore possible research topics for the capstone. Of course the ultimate goal of the course was to get us started on capstone and develop a research topic and questions, but it focused on learning to find reliable research. Many times topics do not have enough peer reviewed research completed on certain topics or anything remotely similar. I started off wanting to do research on a linguistic based topic of idioms but the development of a survey was far too complicated and would bait biased responses. At this point my capstone partner and I decided it would be best to do a literature based capstone due to our second topic of interest, the LGBT+ community within Latin America. We started off general wanted to compare the lesbian experience with the homosexual male experience, but learned we were a bit over our heads chasing to research two heavy topics. We focused in on the male experience and from there started finding books about the queer male experience. We came across this commonality of realistic fiction monologues written in Mexico about this topic and went from there. We researched countless novelas and settled on two of the most popularly reviewed yet powerful novelas. We decided to research the queer male experience in the books El vampiro de la colonia roma by Luis Zapata (1979) and Salón de Belleza by Mario Bellatín. We finished the semester by collecting a list of peer reviewed journals for our literary review and a planner of steps we were going to take to complete the research. Our final presentation for the course can be found here.
Course Narrative: This course met MLO1 & MLO6.