SPANSH 59: Spanish and the Community

An advanced language course that examines the richness and complexity of the Latino experience in the US while promoting community engagement as a vehicle for greater linguistic fluency and cultural understanding. Students are placed with community organizations within the Boston area and volunteer for four hours a week. Class work focuses on expanding students' oral and written proficiency in Spanish through discussing and analyzing readings, arts, and films by and about Latinos in the US.

SPANSH 59 & 59H: About

Connecting With Communities

SPANSH 59H: Spanish for Latino Students II

An advanced language course for Spanish heritage learners that aims to: strengthen students’ oral and written linguistic range, with emphasis on Spanish use for academic contexts; and to further develop students’ critical language and social awareness around important issues for Latinos in our globalized era: Spanish as global language, identity, language rights, global migration and labor, U.S.-Latino America relations, food and environment, the ’war on drugs’. Students explore these topics through various genres (newspapers and academic articles, debates, literary essays, short novels, poetry, visual art, film and music) and through 4 hours a week of community service.

SPANSH 59 & 59H: About

Will McConnell: El Aniversario

Spring 2020

Este historia trata del estrés que la amenaza de deportación puede crear en inmigrantes sin papeles, y debe expresar el costo humano del practico deplorable de deportación.

Sophie Kim

Spring 2020

La ciudad de Nashua

Alejandro Eduarte

Spring 2020

My podcast involves the intersection of Latinx music, history, and music-therapy strategies for mental health improvement.

SPANSH 59 & 59H: Pro Gallery

Elegí a explorar el tema de trabajo y cómo se presenta en comunidades Latinas—aquí representadas en la foto de Frank Espada y la foto que tomé de mi tía. En la foto de Espada, un fotógrafo Americano de Puerto Rico, un hombre mayor se sienta con sus manos dobladas en encima de su delantal. Con una cara seria mirando a la cámara, el sujeto, el Señor Johnson, parece que está en medio de su día de trabajo. De la misma manera, la mujer en la otra foto lleva un delantal, pero ella no mira a la cámara y se enfoca en preparar un pastel de flan. Aunque las fotos son diferentes en poses y la muestra de trabajo, el símbolo compartido del delantal junta los temas de cultura y el trabajo.

Yasmeen Alfaqeeh is a sophomore concentrating in the history of art and architecture at Harvard College.

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