Mapping the Thesis about the Traditional ceremony of the Sundanese in DPBS FPBS UPI
Abstract
Undergraduate thesis (skripsi) is the final work of university students. At Departemen Pendidikan Bahasa Sunda (DPBS) UPI, skripsi research is divided into four big categories; those are linguistics, literature, culture, and teaching-learning process. Research conducted in some skripsi are focused in one of the four categories, even though there are also some others which conducted research focusing in combination of two or more categories. This paper is studying students’ skripsi related to Sundanese traditional ceremony and learning process, those are research classification based on oral texts, performances, Sundanese people's life cycles, annual traditions, etc; the approach used, and the activities related to the learning process. Method used in this study is quantitative method. The source of the data consisted of 1.655 titles of students’ skripsi. This amount is less than a quarter of the total skripsi made by DPBS students. Based on the inventory, skripsi related to Sundanese traditional ceremony mostly focused on life cycle. This number represents the students interest toward the said genre.