ILCS 390 - Spanish in the Community

Credit Hours: 4
Frequency of Offering: Offered in alternate years

This is a community-based-learning course conducted entirely in Spanish in the classroom and in English and/or Spanish in the community. The heart of the course is approximately 15 hours of work tutoring elementary school children from Spanish-speaking families in St. Mary’s County. Other activities to support the Spanish-speaking community might arise depending on need, such as helping at local events, translating, working with other community partners, or tutoring English to Spanish-speaking adults. Class time has the purpose of contextualizing students’ experience in the community and deepening their self-reflection and collaboration with community partners. In-class topics include topic-specific vocabulary, perspectives on and from the Latina/o community and Latin America about education and immigration, concepts of community citizenship, local and national immigrant communities from Latin America, and current events in immigration.

Course Satisfies: This course satisfies the core curriculum requirement in ELAW.
Prerequisite(s): ILCS 206, or ILCS 260, or ILCS 360, or consent of the instructor.