Spanish 200 - Span for Community Engag
Spring
2013
01
4.00
Maria Maillo
MW 12:30PM-01:50PM
Amherst College
SPAN-200-01-1213S
BARR 102
vmaillo@amherst.edu
This course is intended to enhance language skills and share knowledge of local Spanish-speaking communities. Organized around field-based learning, the material, shaped into modules, will connect students with pre-existing community service organizations in Holyoke, Springfield, and other nearby urban centers. Class time will be devoted to understanding the concept of voluntarism in a pluralistic society. Sociological and historical readings on Latinos will provide context. Students will spend approximately three hours a week doing volunteer work in the field.
Requisite: SPAN 199, Spanish Placement Test or consent of Language Coordinator. Limited to 15 students. Spring semester. Senior Lecturer Maillo.