MLO 5: Cultural Praxis
The student demonstrates that he or she has been actively immersed in and has internalized Hispanic culture.
There are three pathways by which this outcome can be fulfilled:
1. Pathway 1: By participating in a study-abroad program in a Spanish-speaking country for at least one semester. WLC's Spanish program has exchange agreements with the University of Aguas Calientes and the University of Queretero in Mexico, and the University of Córdoba in Spain. In addition, through CSU International Programs, you can study at universities in Madrid or Granada, Spain or in Santiago, Chile.
2. Pathway 2: By living and working in a local heritage community over an extended period of time without interruption for at least two years.
3. Pathway 3: By participating in and/or completing 10 of the following cultural learning scenarios with accompanying documentation, in the target language:
● Participate in service learning within a local heritage community for a minimum of eight weeks beyond the actual service learning requirement.
● Make a minimum of three home-visits in the local heritage community to interact and communicate with members of the Hispanic culture regarding topics of personal interest, the community, culture and language.
● Attend or view via media a minimum of 10 cultural events and /or social activities of Hispanic culture.
● Actively participate and/or perform in a school or heritage community event or celebration.
● Participate in a heritage-community project (of some duration) that requires proficiency in Spanish and knowledge of Hispanic cultures.
● Conducting a one hour in-depth interview with a speaker of Spanish, eliciting, in a conversational manner, comments of a biographical nature, cultural and social observations and anecdotal reflections.
● View and comment on 10 movie-length films produced within and about Hispanic culture.
● Participate at least five times in organized sports or recreation activities of Hispanic culture.
● Demonstrate cultural skills by making hotel reservations, ordering meals and shopping in stores or markets in heritage settings where Spanish is spoken. This objective is assessed by faculty.
There are three pathways by which this outcome can be fulfilled:
1. Pathway 1: By participating in a study-abroad program in a Spanish-speaking country for at least one semester. WLC's Spanish program has exchange agreements with the University of Aguas Calientes and the University of Queretero in Mexico, and the University of Córdoba in Spain. In addition, through CSU International Programs, you can study at universities in Madrid or Granada, Spain or in Santiago, Chile.
2. Pathway 2: By living and working in a local heritage community over an extended period of time without interruption for at least two years.
3. Pathway 3: By participating in and/or completing 10 of the following cultural learning scenarios with accompanying documentation, in the target language:
● Participate in service learning within a local heritage community for a minimum of eight weeks beyond the actual service learning requirement.
● Make a minimum of three home-visits in the local heritage community to interact and communicate with members of the Hispanic culture regarding topics of personal interest, the community, culture and language.
● Attend or view via media a minimum of 10 cultural events and /or social activities of Hispanic culture.
● Actively participate and/or perform in a school or heritage community event or celebration.
● Participate in a heritage-community project (of some duration) that requires proficiency in Spanish and knowledge of Hispanic cultures.
● Conducting a one hour in-depth interview with a speaker of Spanish, eliciting, in a conversational manner, comments of a biographical nature, cultural and social observations and anecdotal reflections.
● View and comment on 10 movie-length films produced within and about Hispanic culture.
● Participate at least five times in organized sports or recreation activities of Hispanic culture.
● Demonstrate cultural skills by making hotel reservations, ordering meals and shopping in stores or markets in heritage settings where Spanish is spoken. This objective is assessed by faculty.
For this MLO in the course Span 345 we had a project in which we investigated the thoughts of community members on the subject of bilingualism. We were put into groups and had to come up with two questionnaires, one for monolinguals and one for bilinguals. As a group we had a goal of interviewing 12 people including bilinguals and monolinguals in English and Spanish and then interpret the results. All of our 14 participants were from Monterey County and the results were that the majority of them thought being bilingual was extremely important even those who only spoke one language. We came up with the conclusion that these participants all thought this because Spanish is spoken a lot in the community and they also believed it is important for young children to learn a second language so that in the future they have better job opportunities. We also took into consideration that the participants know that future generations might live in this community and they acknowledge that Spanish might continue to grow in the Monterey County.
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