S SER 111 - Puente Seminar I

2 Credits

Students will participate in seminar style lectures focusing on social justice. Seminar topics may include, navigating the college system, challenges of marginalized groups specific to the Latinx community, and intersections of identity within social structures. Students will create a social justice action project based on lecture and reflection.

Instructor Permission Required Yes
Fees

Quarters Typically Offered

Spring Day

Designed to Serve Intended for Puente students.
Active Date 20180418T08:12:10

Grading System Decimal Grade
Class Limit 25
Contact Hours: Lecture 22
Total Contact Hours 22
Degree Distributions:
Restricted Elective Yes
Course Outline

Introduction, Overview, Student Self Eval and Exploration
Assimilation Vs. Acculturation
Schooling
Family
Language
Representation
Movement
Faith
Academic Style Flexing
Service Learning Project Presentations
Finals week and wrap up

Student Learning Outcomes
Discuss how personal spheres of influence interrupt oppression and sustain justice of professionals and citizens for a humane world.

Deconstruct individual, interpersonal, and institutional structures that support or impede social justice.

Effectively articulate in writing and facilitation the relationship between one’s personal academic journey, issues of social justice, and individual cultural background.

Formulate a service learning project that relates to professional and academic goals and responds to identified cultural gaps.