Mar 28, 2024  
CSU Maritime Academy 2015/16-2016/17 Catalog 
    
CSU Maritime Academy 2015/16-2016/17 Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

GMA 400 - Senior Seminar I


Class Hours: 3, Units: 3
Prerequisite(s): CEP 330 , Senior Class Standing
Co-requisite(s): GMA 400L 
This course is the first of a two-semester sequence that provides an opportunity for senior GSMA majors to integrate their basic understanding of the field with the curricular emphases of the major. Students will explore the interrelationship between the substantive sub-fields, basic concepts, and the major modes of analysis in practice today. Students will focus on two specific objectives. First, students will prepare for oral examinations undertaken at the end of the semester. Directed reading, discipline-specific research, and mock responses are executed under direction of the instructor. Second, students will prepare the structure of their capstone research paper to be written in GMA 401 . To that end, students will formulate a research question, discuss why the question is important, explain how the question can be answered, and select the most appropriate methodology.
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