WLC 300-01_FA18: WLC Major ProSeminar
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.
(Prereq: Junior or Senior Standing)
2 Units
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.
(Prereq: Junior or Senior Standing)
2 Units
In this course we started the semester by getting an introduction on how this course was going be a helpful tool on what we needed to get done to be able to graduate. We got introduce to our major advisors so if we ever had a question, we could go visit them and have a chat about our question. Something helpful from this course was that we got introduce to a few of the World Language and Cultures staff because I knew a just a few before this class. After it I was able to know a couple more members of the department of World Language and Cultures and had the confidence, I had an amazing group of people that would help me along the path in my career while trying to complete my degree. In this class they also gave us advise on our future careers. For example, we had a couple of students that had graduated from the University and had a job at google and another had work with Hilary Clinton while she was campaign to become the president of the United States of America. This was an inspiration that we did not have to be attending a prestige university to be able to work with big companies or along government officials. The university program offers us that opportunity and it's just up to us to work for it and accomplish our personal goals. In addition, for us to be able to graduate we are required to complete an online portfolio of our courses taken to be able to earn our bachelor's degree. The benefit of doing this portfolio is that we can use it when we are trying to get a job because it will demonstrate the abilities, we have acquired in our journey in earning our bachelor’s degree. It would be a good idea to really put the effort in creating the best portfolio we can because it will represent us when we are trying to a job. Overall this class was helpful because it gave us advise to be able to accomplish our bachelor’s degree and use those tools for when we go out into the real world, we can have the skills that need to be able to be successful and enjoy our hard work.