Below are syllabi for introduction-level and advanced Spanish courses. My course design incorporates ACTFL standards for language acquisition with thoughtfully chosen digital tools that invite students to apply their language skills to present their work.

Introduction to Spanish (Part 2)- Summer school course (click to view syllabus)

The principal aims of this beginning-level Spanish language course are to encourage the development of competency and proficiency of all four language skills—listening, speaking, reading, and writing—plus the fifth skill, understanding culture. This course uses a communicative approach to second language acquisition to engage with campus resources such as the Latin American garden and digital assignments such as speaking with Flipgrid and making StoryMaps.

Digital Approaches to Exile Literature (click to view syllabus)

This course introduces students to the genre of exile writing in the Spanish and Latin American contexts. We will consider representations of exile, expressions of the exile experience and discuss the motivations for representing one’s exile history artistically. For each module studied, students will work in groups of three to utilize a digital tool to further our textual analysis. Each tool will offer a different perspective for analysis: verbal, network, and geographic. At the end of the course, we will apply these considerations to recording the stories of the exile community of Spanish Civil War exiles on a digital platform.