Taking It to Street: Spanish in Community

CCAS M167XP - Taking It to Street: Spanish in Community

<p>(Same as Chicana/o and Central American Studies M167XP.) Seminar, three hours; fieldwork, 10 hours. Enforced requisite: course 25 or 27. Service learning course to give students opportunity to use cultural and linguistic knowledge acquired in Spanish classes in real-world settings. Students required to spend minimum of eight to 10 hours per week at agreed on site in Latino community. P/NP or letter grading.</p>

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College of Letters and Science

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Spanish and Portuguese

SPAN M165XP - Taking It to Street: Spanish in Community

Distinguish between Critical Community-Engaged Learning and other Community Service
Learning models and explain what makes Community Service Learning a valuable form of
pedagogy

Explain comprehensively at least 5 social issues that disproportionately affect the Spanishspeaking
communities in California in Spanish

Communicate verbally and in written format at a B2-C1 Spanish level both in class and in your
service site with peers from Spanish speaking and Latinx cultures (see complete level description
on the course website).
a. Understand a wide range of demanding, longer texts, and recognize implicit meaning.
b. Express yourself fluently and spontaneously without much obvious searching for
expressions.
c. Use language flexibly and effectively for social, academic and professional purposes.
d. Produce clear, well-structured, detailed text on complex subjects, showing controlled use of
organizational patterns, connectors and cohesive devices.

Provide examples on how purposeful skills in problem solving and interpersonal communication
that you developed through the quarter helped you perform assigned tasks successfully at your
non-profit organization and how you expect them to be valuable in your future career

List and describe at least 10 initiatives advocating for social justice and non-profit organizations
providing medical, housing-assistance, legal, social, and educational services to the local Latinx
communities

Create, from planning to execution, at least 1 useful product (resource) for your service site based
on a community-identified need by making use of the cultural and linguistic knowledge you have
acquired in your Spanish classes that will contribute to social justice efforts

General Catalog 2024-25

Taking It to Street: Spanish in Community

SPAN M165XP

5 units

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Multiple-Listed Courses