SPAN 301S: SL in the Latino Community
Course Description: 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)]
Fulfills- MLO 3: LITERARY AND CULTURAL KNOWLEDGE
Fulfills- MLO 3: LITERARY AND CULTURAL KNOWLEDGE
Reflective Narrative: In this class I was to engage and interact with the latino community on a personal level through providing services at various sites such as schools, immigration services and more and working to understand Hispanic cultures and the Spanish language. In order to fulfill MLO 3, I did my service at Palenke Arts, working with the bilingual chorus to have a better understanding of the arts in the latino community. Through this course I was able to see the different perspectives and needs the community needed, ranging from immigration to bilingualism to education and much more. Something I wish to further develop from what I have learned in this course is to continue with doing community work in order to give back and help those in need. This course relates to a previous service learning that I did in my freshman year, that service learning focused on the importance of the arts in general and I took what I learned there and applied to this course to see the importance of the arts in the latino community. After completing this course I intend to take what I learned and continue doing service because I realized the importance and the positive impact giving back to the community has. Attached below is my final presentation that I did for the class, it was about my time at Palenke Arts and it shows how I immersed myself within the community.