The course allows students and community members to learn and practice conversational Spanish.  

This course addresses pedagogical methods for Indigenous language teachers to help with language revitalization in their communities. This one credit online class empowers Native language instructors in the use of technology for teaching languages.  

This course addresses pedagogical methods for Indigenous language teachers to help with language revitalization in their communities.  This one credit online class specifically works with creative methods such as positive affirmations, song, dance and story in instruction of Native languages.

Students gain direct experience engaging with language and culture in a community setting. The emphasis is on gaining experiential knowledge through active participation.

This course, conducted in Spanish, focuses on communication as a social practice. Students study language and communication as constrained by multiple factors relating to the identities of the speaker and the addressee - their gender, social class, ethnicity, power relationships, cultural background, former interaction experiences, and their personal expectations and goals.

This course addresses pedagogical methods for Indigenous language teachers to help with language revitalization instruction in their communities.  Language learning is a powerful way to connect with one's own Native identity. This course explores how to fold exploration of Native identity into language instruction to empower students to teach their Native languages.

A beginner course in Spanish for students or community members with little or no prior language study, designed to prepare them for embarking on study abroad.

Fluency in a language relates not only to the knowledge of the language but also the awareness of how cultural context changes the way we communicate. The cultural context of Guadalara, Mexico is different than Santiago, Chile which is different from rural Spain. This course through cultural immersion enables students to recognize how to read cultural differences and respond accordingly. 

Teaching in a border situation requires not only the knowledge of language and linguistic systems, but a great degree of flexibility, adaptability, and empathy to interact with a diverse classroom. This course explores how we can stretch the boundaries of our comfort zones as global citizens and teachers and face behaviors that might challenge our own cultural assumptions.

In this course students learn different concepts and theories of biopolitics including theorists such as Michel Foucault and Giorgio Agamben. Students apply biopolitical theory to understand the complexity of modern institutions such as education, social health, legal systems and war, with special focus on border policies and immigration laws.