Fall Semester of 2020
- Course number: Japanese 311
- Course Title: Social issues in Japan
- Course description: As the drive to rebuild modern Japan after WWII slowed, latent and new social problems have become visible. This course offers interdisciplinary perspectives on issues such as care of the elderly and homeless, equal treatment of minorities, gender and labor issues, domestic and world ecological concerns, and relevant institutions that promote or attack prejudice towards heterogeneous social groups.
- MLO 4
- Course reflective narrative: A course in which I study the issue of Globalization In Japan looking at all aspects of life from the military to the beauty industry, once again looking at secondary cultural aspects that are not apparent in Hispanic cultures.
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- Course number: Spanish 301S
- Course Title: Service Learning in the Chicano / Latino Community
- Course description: Students will become involved in community projects of importance and relevance that engage them in matters relative to justice, compassion, diversity and social responsibility, and help them become effective multicultural community builders. The course is designed to help you enhance your skills in personal and professional communication as well as classroom discussions and oral presentations in Spanish.
- MLO 6
- Course reflective narrative: In this course we were fully immersed in sharing dialogue in Spanish and we were also entrusted in helping the community through volunteer work. One assignment/activity that helped me achieve the cultural internalization of the major was through my service learning site The Central Coast Citizenship Project. Here I was tasked to help with reviewing citizenship questions with non-English speakers. Part of my duties involved helping non-English speakers to practice their English communication skills. This helped my cultural internalization as I was able to also apply what I have used in my other university courses to teach English to a Spanish speaker. The Service learning volunteering opportunity reflects the cultural internalization piece of the major.
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- Course number: Spanish 304
- Course Title: Intro To Hispanic Literature
- Course description: This course introduces the principles of literary analysis, based on reading and discussion of Hispanic literary texts. Includes fiction, drama, essay, and poetry from Spain and Spanish America.
- MLO 3
- Course reflective narrative: In this course, we were immersed in literature that also helped us understand the different cultural aspects in some pieces of literature. Some examples included looking at the different structures of how poems are composed and the way words are used in the poems.
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- Prometeo
- Course number: Spanish 313
- Course Title: Intro to Spanish Linguistics
- Course description: Presents the principal branches of linguistic study, as it pertains to Spanish: the sound system (phonetics and phonology), the structure of words (morphology), and the structure of sentences (syntax). Additionally, attention is paid to bilingualism, especially Spanish in the US, and how Spanish is spoken/written differently by various social groups (sociolinguistics) and in various Spanish-speaking countries (dialectology).
- MLO 2
- Course reflective narrative: A course that I was enrolled in that helped me analyze speech patterns and language differences. One major assignment that embodied this same spirit of language acquisition and linguistic differences was analyzing the way in which Spanish is spoken in a Latin American country.
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- Course number: WLC 300
- Course Title: WLC Major Pro seminar
- Course description: This course introduces students to the Japanese Language and Culture, or Spanish Language and Hispanic Cultures majors. Students acquire knowledge and understanding needed to fulfill Major Learning Outcomes for the programs, including literature, culture and linguistics, and to develop individual learning plans. The course examines opportunities in related professional and career paths, such as graduate education and teaching credential preparation.
- MLO 6
- Course reflective narrative: In the course of WLC 300 we can count on the use of technology focusing on looking at the creation of our E-Portfolio which would become useful for the semester in which we graduate.