Service learning SPAN 301 S: SL in the Latino Community (Seminar) This course is part of your Spanish language learning experience, and offers you the opportunity to interact in a personal way with members of the local Latino community, thereby enriching your understanding of Hispanic cultures and the Spanish language. It is intended to involve WLC Spanish majors with local Latino communities to experience real-life connections between their Spanish program education and everyday issues in the surrounding Latino communities. Students will become involved in community projects of importance and relevance to engage them in matters relative to justice, compassion, diversity and social responsibility, and help them become effective multicultural community builders.
Course Reflection SPAN 301S
This class is really one of the most important classes, because it gives the student the opportunity to put into practice the work done in school. Thanks to this class I had the opportunity to learn more about the Latino community. My service to the community was a total of thirty hours. I decided to do my community service at the Central Coast Dads Program in Castroville, ca. Central Coast Dads offers parent groups and social activities in Santa Cruz and Monterey counties designed to strengthen the parent-child bond. Goals are to increase positive parent-child relationships and promote the role of fathers in the lives of children. Program activities provide fun and educational opportunities for parents to learn about the beneficial role of father figures in the family and community. Parents focus their skill-building learning toward improving five relationships: relationship with the child, with self, with parents, with the family of origin, and with the community.
My main goal why this agency? To learn more about the importance of the father figure in children, I believe that learning from this will help me to understand more about the behavior of children and parents at the same time. Whether it's putting me in their shoes for a moment Because my interest is to work with children as a kindergarten teacher or a teacher of older adults.
I did my Learning -Service through Learning by Doing Community Service ,Getting involved in the parents' workshops by seeing what they did and observing the couples' workshops. ,-involving myself in childcare and what activities they had. I put into practice the use of the Spanish language, there were children who spoke English, and others Spanish, most felt more comfortable speaking Spanish. I had the opportunity to observe interviews to enter the workshop with women who are suffering and need help. I learned to practice social responsibility with my community, to be compassionate and empathetic to the needs of others.
I had the opportunity to practice my bilingual skills, Spanish-English and vice versa. I had the opportunity to participate in translations of materials for the community workshops, so that the Latino community would be taken into account, showing them respect and making the information more understandable, more than better in their own language. I had the opportunity to connect more with the Latino community, and learn more about what my Latino community cares about. I gained experience working as a team with more colleagues and coordinating with each other to achieve a common goal of social welfare and better social awareness.