Course Description
This course gives students the opportunity to deepen their knowledge of Japanese language and culture from the perspective of social justice and responsibility through their community service. Students develop advanced level communication skills through discussions, reflection essays, and presentations. Taught in Japanese. (Prereq: (JAPN 300 or equivalent) |
Reflective Narrative
Service learning is a program unique to CSUMB which involves integrative learning through service within the surrounding community and reflective analysis. This course This class is an upper division service learning course in which the students are Junior or Senior standing. The curriculum is based on four major Service Learning Outcomes(SLO), which are 1. Self and Social Awareness 2. Service and Social Responsibility 3. Community and Social Justice 4. Multicultural Community Building/Civic Engagement I did my service with an organization called Community Partnership for Youth(CPY) at Del Rey Woods Elementary. During this course we both created and executed lessons plans for a Japanese workshop to teach the Del Rey Woods children apart of the local after school program. This volunteer work was supplemented throughout the semester through readings, discourse and reflective analysises about our experiences. The deeper analysis required in order to communicate our cultural knowledge to a younger audiance partnered with the previously mentioned reflections fulfilled MLO 2 Culture. All done in Japanese to simultaneously enhance our language skills and fulfilling MLO 1 Language and Communication. All of this can been shown as well through the powerpoint for the final presentation here. This course put my Major learnings in perspective of society and my local community. In addition to teaching me how work as an educator in both a social and professional setting as I taught those lessons on Japanese culture. In addition to continuing my studies I want to take the skills gained from this experience and put them to use through my plans to teach English in Japan |
lesson plan example | |
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reflection_1.pdf | |
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service_learning_final.pdf | |
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