World Language and Culture 300:
This course introduces students to the majors in Japanese Language and Culture, Spanish or World Language and Cultures. Students acquire knowledge and understanding needed to fulfill Major Learning Outcomes for the programs. Students identify and work with a major advisor to develop individual learning plans. The course examines opportunities in related professional and career paths, including graduate education and teaching credential preparation
This course introduces students to the majors in Japanese Language and Culture, Spanish or World Language and Cultures. Students acquire knowledge and understanding needed to fulfill Major Learning Outcomes for the programs. Students identify and work with a major advisor to develop individual learning plans. The course examines opportunities in related professional and career paths, including graduate education and teaching credential preparation
In fall of 2011 the first Major class I took in the major was WLC 300. In this course, the two main things we did was writing our statement of purpose and developing our resumes. Both of which you saw on my home page. Next, we looked really in-depth at researching through databases the college offers.
Thinking back on the course, when we were creating our resumes we were also looking at the possible career paths that our available to the people that graduate in our major. Even though that’s the description of the course, I think it’s a little bit more complicated. Most people, when hearing about my major, ask what can a person do with it. Though I had already decided to become a teacher before transferring to CSUMB when taking this class, which was one of the more popular career choices.
Through participating in this course, I developed a functional resume that I am able to use when applying for jobs, as well as a personal statement that I feel describes my reasons for majoring in Japanese fairly well.
I learned a lot about writing personal statements, which is something that has always been difficult for me. Also, I learned good ways to perform research and find scholarly articles. I also started thinking more about the different careers I could go into if I ended up changing my career path. I especially started thinking a lot about going into a translation based career, as it seemed like a good way to continue my own studies as well as doing something important and fun. I think in a major such as Japanese, a lot about learning about what’s really interesting to us, as well as deciding what we really want to with our lives starts with a course like this one. Without looking at careers, and developing our statements of purpose we can’t really understand our own thoughts for majoring in Japanese and thus we can’t decide on a career. I think that’s what this course was more or less teaching us. Furthermore, by developing our resumes at such an early stage it shows us our strengths and weaknesses as well as showing us a possible career path. Personally as a graduating senior, the only way I can develop more is by getting real world experience and then deciding what path I really want to follow; whether or not to return to graduate school or continue teaching.
Thinking back on the course, when we were creating our resumes we were also looking at the possible career paths that our available to the people that graduate in our major. Even though that’s the description of the course, I think it’s a little bit more complicated. Most people, when hearing about my major, ask what can a person do with it. Though I had already decided to become a teacher before transferring to CSUMB when taking this class, which was one of the more popular career choices.
Through participating in this course, I developed a functional resume that I am able to use when applying for jobs, as well as a personal statement that I feel describes my reasons for majoring in Japanese fairly well.
I learned a lot about writing personal statements, which is something that has always been difficult for me. Also, I learned good ways to perform research and find scholarly articles. I also started thinking more about the different careers I could go into if I ended up changing my career path. I especially started thinking a lot about going into a translation based career, as it seemed like a good way to continue my own studies as well as doing something important and fun. I think in a major such as Japanese, a lot about learning about what’s really interesting to us, as well as deciding what we really want to with our lives starts with a course like this one. Without looking at careers, and developing our statements of purpose we can’t really understand our own thoughts for majoring in Japanese and thus we can’t decide on a career. I think that’s what this course was more or less teaching us. Furthermore, by developing our resumes at such an early stage it shows us our strengths and weaknesses as well as showing us a possible career path. Personally as a graduating senior, the only way I can develop more is by getting real world experience and then deciding what path I really want to follow; whether or not to return to graduate school or continue teaching.