Cse Reflective Narrative
Title of the course: Major Capstone
Course number: WLC 400
WLC 400 Identify the MLO the course meets: MLO6
Course description: Students work with the instructor and WLC faculty advisors to research, synthesize, write, and present their Capstone projects. Students also assemble a Graduation ePortfolio reflecting how each MLO was met. This course is required for all Japanese, Spanish and World Languages and Cultures majors. (Offered Spring semester.)
For this spring semester, 2023 I had the opportunity to take WLC 400 which is a class where we students have to get involved in a big project with groups and choose a topic where we would have to do an essay of 30 to 35 pages long and two presentations on that topic of our essay and make the presentation in English and Spanish. And also present in front of many people. Although the presentation was in Spanish, when the public asked us questions, we had to translate them into another language, either Spanish or English. It was a great experience because I had the chance to meet new people and gather to make this project successful. Although, this project was somehow stressful because I was putting all of my efforts into making it sound professional. From my experience, I would recommend future students stay calm and must make time for this since the meeting with our group is more than one hour. I would say that from this project, students learn how to have patience and understand that we all have different opinions and there would be times when we won't agree with each other's opinion. This project involves us having interviews with certain people to help to prove our investigation. Our project was focused on the linguistics side, and our topic was The Educational Barriers that Spanish-Speaking Students Face on the Central Coast of California. We talk about how these students struggled to communicate with others around them in school. I actually enjoyed this project because I somehow identified with them because I remember I would struggle to communicate with my teachers because my English was not that good. It is depressing to be in this position, but that was not an obstacle for me and my interviewers.
Version Final Bravo, Filan, Zaragoza-Capstone Project - Google Docs
Version Final Bravo, Filan, Zaragoza-Capstone Project - Google Docs