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.
Course Narrative: This course was a continuation of the Pre-Capstone Course linked here. This was the continuation of the reattach we started in our last semester but with the completion of an essay and a presentation to go with it. The link to my capstone webpage can be found here. Please feel free to visit my capstone page, but I am also providing the table of contents for my capstone below so that I may describe some aspects of the project and what I learned.
Table of Contents:
For the purpose of the course narrative and what I learned from this course, I would say the Literature Review portion taught me the most in that I had to do plenty of research and organize it in a logical way. Besides this I learned how to use footnotes to effectively drive the paper forward. The book analysis was a similar process in deciding which topics to analyze for each book and compare but the sources were the books themselves, so this made that process easier. Another portion that was a bit tricky was learning how to effectively adapt our 32 page essay into a 15 minute presentation. It took many cuts and edits to get the point of our research and analysis across without going over time and these presentations can be found on the capstone page of this website.
This course met MLO1 & MLO6
Course Narrative: This course was a continuation of the Pre-Capstone Course linked here. This was the continuation of the reattach we started in our last semester but with the completion of an essay and a presentation to go with it. The link to my capstone webpage can be found here. Please feel free to visit my capstone page, but I am also providing the table of contents for my capstone below so that I may describe some aspects of the project and what I learned.
Table of Contents:
- Significance of Study
- Research Questions
- Literature Review
- Luis Zapata
- El vampiro de la Colonia Roma
- Mario Bellatín
- Salón de belleza
- Comparison: Prostitution, Isolation & exclusion, Cynicism
- Conclusion
For the purpose of the course narrative and what I learned from this course, I would say the Literature Review portion taught me the most in that I had to do plenty of research and organize it in a logical way. Besides this I learned how to use footnotes to effectively drive the paper forward. The book analysis was a similar process in deciding which topics to analyze for each book and compare but the sources were the books themselves, so this made that process easier. Another portion that was a bit tricky was learning how to effectively adapt our 32 page essay into a 15 minute presentation. It took many cuts and edits to get the point of our research and analysis across without going over time and these presentations can be found on the capstone page of this website.
This course met MLO1 & MLO6