Spanish 301S: Service Learning in the Chicano/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.
Course Narrative:
This course was taken Fall 2017. This course meets MLO 3: Secondary Cultural Knowledge.
The objective of this course if to know more about the Latinos in our community such as their culture, values and their beliefs. This course gives you the opportunity to be involve with one another in not just the class but with the community, we get to see how diverse it is. After taking this course I was able to understand a lot about my community that I was blinded to, the diversity that I live in and I had not noticed it until I was able to work closer with it while taking this course.
For this course I volunteered as an After School Leader with YMCA at San Martin Gwinn in San Martin, Ca. In the time i got to spend with the students and the parents I learned more about the community that I live in. The reason why i decided to do my service learning with this particular school is because it is the only school in the district that is a dual immersion school. During my time there I got to work with kids from 1-5 grade. I got to help them with their homework, work with them with extra curriculum activities. The majority of the students in the program are hispanics and in the dual program. I got to see how the kids were learning Spanish. I was astonished how a lot of the students understood the language at a young age. My favorite part of my time with parents, the program does a lot of family activities to get to know the parents and they were all very friendly. Being in that site made you feel as if you are part of a family. This particular school the majority of the parents are field workers so work a factory near by and depend on the after school program like the YMCA.
service_learning_.pdf
Course Narrative:
This course was taken Fall 2017. This course meets MLO 3: Secondary Cultural Knowledge.
The objective of this course if to know more about the Latinos in our community such as their culture, values and their beliefs. This course gives you the opportunity to be involve with one another in not just the class but with the community, we get to see how diverse it is. After taking this course I was able to understand a lot about my community that I was blinded to, the diversity that I live in and I had not noticed it until I was able to work closer with it while taking this course.
For this course I volunteered as an After School Leader with YMCA at San Martin Gwinn in San Martin, Ca. In the time i got to spend with the students and the parents I learned more about the community that I live in. The reason why i decided to do my service learning with this particular school is because it is the only school in the district that is a dual immersion school. During my time there I got to work with kids from 1-5 grade. I got to help them with their homework, work with them with extra curriculum activities. The majority of the students in the program are hispanics and in the dual program. I got to see how the kids were learning Spanish. I was astonished how a lot of the students understood the language at a young age. My favorite part of my time with parents, the program does a lot of family activities to get to know the parents and they were all very friendly. Being in that site made you feel as if you are part of a family. This particular school the majority of the parents are field workers so work a factory near by and depend on the after school program like the YMCA.
service_learning_.pdf