Course Description: Students will become involved in community projects of importance and relevance that engage them in matters relative to justice, compassion, diversity and social responsibility, and help them become effective multicultural community builders. The course is designed to help you enhance your skills in personal and professional communication as well as classroom discussions and oral presentations in Spanish.
Major Learning Outcomes (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
Interpersonal “Expresses self fully to maintain conversations on familiar topics and new concrete social, academic, and work-related topics. Can communicate in paragraph-length conversation about events with detail and organization. Confidently handles situations with an unexpected complication. Shares point of view in discussion”Interpretive “Understands main ideas and supporting details on familiar and some new, concrete topics from a variety of more complex texts that have a clear, organized structure.”Presentational “Communicate information and expresses self with detail and organization on familiar and some new concrete topics using paragraphs.”Major Learning Outcomes (MLO 3 Literary and Cultural Knowledge)
Students develop a reasonable understanding of the ways of thinking (ideas, beliefs, attitudes, values, philosophy), the behavioral practices (patterns of social interactions), and the cultural products – both tangible and intangible (for example, art, history, literature, music) — of Hispanic societies. (Source Can-do Statements)
Interpersonal “Expresses self fully to maintain conversations on familiar topics and new concrete social, academic, and work-related topics. Can communicate in paragraph-length conversation about events with detail and organization. Confidently handles situations with an unexpected complication. Shares point of view in discussion”Interpretive “Understands main ideas and supporting details on familiar and some new, concrete topics from a variety of more complex texts that have a clear, organized structure.”Presentational “Communicate information and expresses self with detail and organization on familiar and some new concrete topics using paragraphs.”Major Learning Outcomes (MLO 3 Literary and Cultural Knowledge)
Students develop a reasonable understanding of the ways of thinking (ideas, beliefs, attitudes, values, philosophy), the behavioral practices (patterns of social interactions), and the cultural products – both tangible and intangible (for example, art, history, literature, music) — of Hispanic societies. (Source Can-do Statements)
- Products Students can explain “how a variety of products of public and personal interest are related to perspectives”
- Practices Students “can explain how a variety of practices within familiar and social situations are related to perspectives”
- Interact Students can interact at a competent level in familiar and some unfamiliar contexts
- Behavior Students “demonstrate awareness of subtle differences among cultural behaviors and adjust their behavior accordingly in familiar and some unfamiliar situations.”
- Investigative Students can explain some diversity among products and practices and how it relates to perspectives