Course Description: Through the completion of a community project, students will demonstrate that they have actively immersed themselves in authentic Hispanic cultural and linguistic environments and have internalized the language and cultural experience, from which they have developed personal understanding and new perspectives of Hispanic communities. This course is taught in Spanish.
Course Narrative: In Spanish 495 we had to explain and comprehend the purpose and significance of oral projects and the narratives. This also brought us to also learn the best practices for conducting interviews when it came to collecting oral narratives. For the two interviews we had to pick two people that we didn't know and prepare 10 questions so that we could ask them about their experiences. We also had to connect them to two books that we had picked. I decided to pick the books Querias Norte! and La frontera de cristal. The books are connected to the people I interviewed by the testimonies they told me about arriving in a new country. Connecting all of the information we had collected and we wrote down our own experiences through the process. This class helps me to get more involved with my community and also in the future to investigate more about the different testimonies that some people experienced upon their arrival in the United States and learn more about the clash of cultures.