Students work with the instructor and WLC faculty advisors to research, synthesize, write and present their Capstone projects. Students will also assemble a Graduation Portfolio reflecting how each MLO was met. Students will be able to:
- research, read analytically and synthesize academic sources
- write coherently in English and Japanese/Spanish with an appropriate level of formality
- orally present their work in an cohesive manner using appropriate presentation tools
- develop critical thinking skills, which can be used in the research stage (reading, analyzing, synthesizing) and in the writing stage of project
- accurately use a specific style guide, such as APA (Japanese) or MLA (Spanish culture & literature), and APA (linguistics)
- organize their thoughts, ideas and materials in a graduation portfolio
- Students turn in a portfolio that demonstrates the breadth of their coursework, how students fulfilled the MLOs in their major, how students fulfilled University-wide requirements, among other things. The evidence section of the portfolio should be organized by MLOs and show the best sample for each MLO.
In Capstone 400 we were guided by our instructor's throughout the semester on the development of our capstone projects which include a paper, a power point presentation in Spanish and English, and an electronic portfolio, consisting all of our work completed here at CSU Monterey Bay. The purpose of the capstone project is to demonstrate our understanding of material and education that we have attained, in the major; while also implementing a specific topic of choice which correlates with that material. The paper also demonstrates our ability to write in our target language.