JAPN403: Pre-Capstone
Course Description:
This course aims to develop advanced proficiency in communication through oral and written presentations to develop research project for Capstone in Japanese using appropriate media. (Credit/ No Credit Available) (Prereq: JAPN 202 or JAPN 300)
How it Connects:
4.1 Our teacher broke down the process of building a capstone into three parts: the Title, the Research Questions, and the Survey questions. Once we had those topics and keywords determined, we learned how to find proper research materials, such as scholarly articles and books, and how to determine if they held the information we were looking for.
4.2 At least three times during my time at CSUMB, we met with our Major Librarian, and learned how to use the library database to our advantage to find the articles that applied exactly to what we were looking for. Our library database opened the way to several other incredibly helpful websites that specialized in articles related to language learning, Japanese culture, and everything in between.
4.3 Along with the helpful research databases, our Major Librarian would regularly share up-to-date technology that would help us keep track of our research and organize our project. To help us with keeping a list of our sources, she introduced Zotero, and we quickly became proficient in saving articles and returning to our accounts for reference. To help us keep our thoughts organized as we researched and found answers to our questions, she introduced Coggle, a concept mapping website that allowed us to build and connect thoughts and ideas we could later relate to our papers.
Please find my Coggle concept map here
For evidence, please see the Capstone page
This course aims to develop advanced proficiency in communication through oral and written presentations to develop research project for Capstone in Japanese using appropriate media. (Credit/ No Credit Available) (Prereq: JAPN 202 or JAPN 300)
How it Connects:
4.1 Our teacher broke down the process of building a capstone into three parts: the Title, the Research Questions, and the Survey questions. Once we had those topics and keywords determined, we learned how to find proper research materials, such as scholarly articles and books, and how to determine if they held the information we were looking for.
4.2 At least three times during my time at CSUMB, we met with our Major Librarian, and learned how to use the library database to our advantage to find the articles that applied exactly to what we were looking for. Our library database opened the way to several other incredibly helpful websites that specialized in articles related to language learning, Japanese culture, and everything in between.
4.3 Along with the helpful research databases, our Major Librarian would regularly share up-to-date technology that would help us keep track of our research and organize our project. To help us with keeping a list of our sources, she introduced Zotero, and we quickly became proficient in saving articles and returning to our accounts for reference. To help us keep our thoughts organized as we researched and found answers to our questions, she introduced Coggle, a concept mapping website that allowed us to build and connect thoughts and ideas we could later relate to our papers.
Please find my Coggle concept map here
For evidence, please see the Capstone page