Course Description:

This course is designed for active participation in community-based organizations that require the use of Spanish with clients. Students will have the opportunity to encounter real-life experiences that will afford them opportunities to expand their knowledge and develop critical thinking and problem solving skills. Conducted in Spanish and English.

Goals and Objectives:

The Service Learning class will place an emphasis on diversity and pluralism that lends itself to student empowerment. The Service Learning approach will contribute in developing students? civic involvement and learning beyond the class. The Service Learning experience will be reflected in written class assignments for journals and compositions.

Degree Application:

Spanish Associate of Arts, International Language Studies Certificate, Associate of Applied Science, Spanish Interpreting Certificate, and Spanish Translation Certificate.

Responsibilities of students:

• Meet with instructor and site supervisor to discuss program and requirements
• Complete required hours for program by May 5, 2006
• Fulfill academic assignment requirements
• Abide to prodcedures of site
• Understand your work performance will affect future opportunities

Responsibilities of instructor:

• Discuss goals of service option with site representative
• Allow site representatives to deliver presentations to class
• Help students by communicating weekly on the progress of their site?s visits
• Evaluate student learning progress through journal assignments and class discussions

Responsibilities of site administrator:

• Participate as co-facilitators in Service-Learning program at TCC
• Afford appropriate training in responsibilities, regulations, and procedures
• Monitor the work of the student by communicating with instructor
• Provide an environment of sound professional ethics
• Provide safe facilities for students

Evaluation and grading:

Journal: Maintain a journal in Spanish documenting each visit to local sites. Use the journal to write down new words and interesting language usage that you encounter. You will submit a list of lingo used on each site to be shared with the class. Note some of the cultural impressions that are new to you such as nationalities of patients, defendants, or any client we are serving. Note what are the reasons they come to the agencies, what they discuss among themselves or with you, what brought them to Tulsa, what experiences positive or negative they have had in this country. Use the journal to document your activities at the sites and to make suggestions. Five journals will be collected electronically weekly from the time you start your site visits. The journal plus the Final Oral Exam Power Point will count for 75% of the course grade.

Additional assignments and projects will count for 25% of the course grade. Projects include translated lingo learned on site, writing an essay to share with the site, and attending a local Hispanic event.

Community sites for Service Learning projects:

• Catholic Charities
• City of Tulsa Mayor?s Citizen Corps
• Eisenhower International
• Hispanic Resource Center
• Kendall Wittier Elementary School
• Legal Aid Services of Oklahoma
• Newcomer International School
• Skelly Elementary School
• Tulsa Municipal Court
• Xavier Catholic Church
• Victory Bible School (Spanish Service Sundays)
• Zarrow International Schoo