SPAN 301S: Service Learning in the Chicano / Latino Community.
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. As a community-based learning experience, the course provides students with career-related experience working collaboratively with community agencies to address community concerns / issues. [Prereq: (Junior or Senior Standing) and (SPAN 202) and (WLC Spanish Majors Only)]
Minimum units: 4
MLO 1 Language Proficiency.
Students are able to communicate effectively in Spanish in three modes: interpersonal, interpretive, and presentational, and in a culturally appropriate manner in a variety of social and professional settings and circumstances at the Advanced Low level of language proficiency, according to ACTFL Guidelines.
1.1 Speaking ability: The student is able to satisfy the requirements of every day situations and routine school and work requirements. Can communicate facts and talk casually about topics of current public and personal interest, using general vocabulary. The student can be understood without difficulty by native speakers.
1.2 Listening ability: The student is able to understand main ideas and most details of connected discourse on variety of topics beyond the immediacy situation.
1.3 Reading ability: The student is able to read prose selections of several paragraphs in length, particularly if printed clearly and if prose is in familiar sentence patterns. Reader understands the main ideas and facts but may miss some details.
1.4 Writing ability: The student is bale to write routine social correspondence and join sentences in simple discourse of a least several paragraphs in length on familiar topics, and is able to express him/herself simply with some circumlocution. Good control of the most frequently used syntactic structures, but makes frequent errors in producing complex sentences. Writing is understandable to natives not used to the writing of nonnatives.
MLO 5 Cultural Internalization and Language Immersion:
Students demonstrate that they have actively immersed themselves in authentic Hispanic cultural and linguistic environments and have internalized the language and cultural experience, from which they have developed personal understanding and new perspectives of Hispanic communities.
Note: Students develop intercultural communication skills and strategies, and learn to adapt and respond in effective ways. This MLO may be fulfilled by a study abroad experience or equivalent. Courses taken in a study abroad program may count toward another MLO. Students who choose Pathway 2 will be working on a community project to fulfill this requirement.
Course Narrative
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 is 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.
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. As a community-based learning experience, the course provides students with career-related experience working collaboratively with community agencies to address community concerns / issues. [Prereq: (Junior or Senior Standing) and (SPAN 202) and (WLC Spanish Majors Only)]
Minimum units: 4
MLO 1 Language Proficiency.
Students are able to communicate effectively in Spanish in three modes: interpersonal, interpretive, and presentational, and in a culturally appropriate manner in a variety of social and professional settings and circumstances at the Advanced Low level of language proficiency, according to ACTFL Guidelines.
1.1 Speaking ability: The student is able to satisfy the requirements of every day situations and routine school and work requirements. Can communicate facts and talk casually about topics of current public and personal interest, using general vocabulary. The student can be understood without difficulty by native speakers.
1.2 Listening ability: The student is able to understand main ideas and most details of connected discourse on variety of topics beyond the immediacy situation.
1.3 Reading ability: The student is able to read prose selections of several paragraphs in length, particularly if printed clearly and if prose is in familiar sentence patterns. Reader understands the main ideas and facts but may miss some details.
1.4 Writing ability: The student is bale to write routine social correspondence and join sentences in simple discourse of a least several paragraphs in length on familiar topics, and is able to express him/herself simply with some circumlocution. Good control of the most frequently used syntactic structures, but makes frequent errors in producing complex sentences. Writing is understandable to natives not used to the writing of nonnatives.
MLO 5 Cultural Internalization and Language Immersion:
Students demonstrate that they have actively immersed themselves in authentic Hispanic cultural and linguistic environments and have internalized the language and cultural experience, from which they have developed personal understanding and new perspectives of Hispanic communities.
Note: Students develop intercultural communication skills and strategies, and learn to adapt and respond in effective ways. This MLO may be fulfilled by a study abroad experience or equivalent. Courses taken in a study abroad program may count toward another MLO. Students who choose Pathway 2 will be working on a community project to fulfill this requirement.
Course Narrative
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 is 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.