¡Bienvenides! Welcome to Spanish for Social Justice
Spanish for Social Justice courses are offered by Algarabía Language Co-op in partnership with The People’s Forum. We offer courses at the BEGINNER, INTERMEDIATE, and ADVANCED levels of fluency to those interested in topics of social justice, politics, and culture. Through weekly social justice themes, and using a communicative and popular education approach, participants will improve their Spanish skills and critically engage with various cultural productions centered around the lived experiences of working class people of Indigenous and African descent on the continent. These courses are designed for folks at different levels of fluency in their productive (speaking, writing) and receptive (listening and reading) skills. Special focus will be given to learning vocabulary and community organizing terminology relevant to contemporary social movements in New York City (Lenapehoking), one of the largest and most diverse Spanish-speaking cities in the world and the rest of Turtle Island and Abya Yala.
This summer brings new beginnings: we’re welcoming a brand-new Español III, a space designed especially for practicing, strengthening, and rooting what you’ve already started to grow. We’ve also renamed our classes:
– Español I – Spanish I (formerly True Beginner)
– Español II – Spanish II (formerly High Beginner)
– Español III – Spanish III (our new Practice Beginner class)
– Español IV – Spanish IV (formerly Low Intermediate)
– Español V – Spanish V (formerly High Intermediate)
– Español VI – Spanish VI (formerly Advanced)
IMPORTANT:
- There are two virtual tracks for this program – There is a track that is open to all, and another for Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC). If you identify as BIPOC, you are also welcome to apply to the Open-to-All track in this same form
- Please only apply if you are able to attend most of the classes
- Each session can hold up to 15 participants.
- Cost of class $200-$400 sliding scale. This includes all course materials.
*$500 if contribution is paid for by employer or another institutional funding source.*
ABOUT OUR LANGUAGE INSTRUCTION: At Algarabía Language Co-op, we see language learning as a meaningful, collaborative, and transformative process reflected in our training in hands-on communicative and task-based language teaching approaches and our use of popular education in the language classroom. We seek to support the holistic development of all language learners as they become competent multilingual speakers. We devise classroom activities and use textbooks and other original didactic materials that meet our participants’ needs and that represent the linguistic and racial/ethnic diversity of the Spanish-speaking worlds.
Selected participants will be contacted by Algarabía on a rolling basis and will receive a link to complete their payment and secure their spot in the class.
