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.
Reflective Narrative:
SPAN 300 taught by Dr. Rebecca Pozzi in support of MLO 6, is an additional support course for the Spanish Language and Hispanic Cultures Major Capstone. This course goes through a wide number of techniques needed in order to understand which topic we want to do for our final project. Employing a number of sources which we have to fit and support our ideas. Using CSUMB resources as the library and its specific book topic search engine in order to narrow down the list of sources that support our claims in our research paper that is the central point of the project. Depending on which category our topic falls into we will be supported by a Professor from the World Language and Cultures department that specializes in that field to support those students from start to finish. Throughout the semester there will be several individuals who are experts in the professional field who are staff at CSUMB who help you advance in regards to your sources and how your capabilities can help you look for a job that fits into your skill set. This is only in preparation for the actual Major Capstone course WLC 400, this course helps you go into the Capstone Project without immediately having to do a large amount of work within the span of a few weeks. This dwindles down a majority of the capstone to focus solely on the paper and rarely anything else. This course also supports the advancement of our E-Portfolio that summarizes our experience in the Spanish Language and Hispanic Cultures major, by taking everything we wrote into it beforehand and fixing any errors. Organizing our courses into a more fitting work that can be used in a professional setting, such as showing an example of what we worked on during our time in SPAN 300, and what exactly it did for us in the long run.
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Major Learning Outcome Fulfillment: