现代语言, 文献 and 文化s Field Group

在匹泽学院, Field Groups (similar to a discipline or department) organize 主要的需求 and courses.

现代语言, 文献, and 文化s is a multidisciplinary field group encompassing curriculum and programing in both languages 和文化s and in 写作. 

We invite students to see languages and literacies as social practices.  Based on the assumption that communication is always situated, the field group–across its domains of interdisciplinary expertise–engages students to speak, 写, and read within communities of practice as co-producers of knowledges. 

In praxis- and community-based courses in languages, 写作, 和教学, students investigate the cultural production, 循环, 以及交际练习的使用, exploring how language shapes and is shaped by its diverse practitioners. 

Students are also equipped with skills to participate meaningfully in the intellectual life of the college and beyond and to reflect criti呼叫y on the ways in which language mediates identity, 权力, 和文化.

西班牙语, 葡萄牙语, and 法国 at Pitzer

Pitzer offers language 和文化 courses in 西班牙语, 葡萄牙语, and 法国. Our program focuses on Latin America and the Caribbean, offering courses that approach a variety of sociocultural issues and their intersections from interdisciplinary perspectives. Course topics include environmental issues, 流行文化, 迁移, 比赛, 性别, 政治, 新闻, 公共卫生, 音乐, 城市文化, 文学, 以及视觉和表演艺术. 

基于社区的方法

Our program is distinctive within the consortium and nationally because of our community-based approach to teaching and learning. Our guiding principle is the deceivingly simple idea that language is a social practice. We believe that students learn and develop cultural competency and global citizenship skills by interacting with communities of speakers. 这些相互作用是局部的和全局的. 20多年来, students have been interacting with local Hispanic families through our 西班牙语 Community-Based Practicum. Our lower-division 西班牙语 students also have the opportunity to develop proficiency through interactions with their 西班牙语 heritage speaker peers who are fellows at the Fletcher Jones Language and 文化 Lab. 在全球范围内, our virtual learning communities connect our students with English learners in Spain, 法属加勒比, 巴西, and several 西班牙语-speaking communities throughout Latin America. 

教学水平

In addition to these local and global community-based components, our program has a rigorous approach to second language acquisition that is rooted in state-of-the art pedagogical approaches. 我们遵循 American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL) standards in all our curricular design and assessment efforts. Our program is rooted in these standards and is 熟练面向, which means that our goals and objectives for student learning promote intercultural communication based on what students “can do” with the language in meaningful and real-world contexts. All our language faculty are trained in ACTFL standards and engage in professional development to be up to date in best practices in second language acquisition 和教学. 

专业

西班牙语 主要的
西班牙语+葡萄牙语 主要的
西班牙小

We offer a 西班牙语 major with three tracks (西班牙语 Language and Literature, 西班牙语言与文化, and Interdisciplinary Studies in 西班牙语), 西班牙语未成年人, a major in which students combine 西班牙语和葡萄牙语, 辅修葡萄牙语. 

葡萄牙小

The 葡萄牙语 程序 at the 5Cs is a collaboration between Pitzer and CMC. The program focuses on 巴西, the largest 葡萄牙语 speaking country in the world. Pitzer有一个 direct-run summer program in Salvador da Bahia 由我们的社区合作伙伴主持 史蒂夫·比科文化研究所. 

法国

Pitzer is part of the 5C Northern 法国 程序 (Pitzer, Scripps, and CMC). The focus of Pitzer’s 法国 curriculum is the 法国 speaking Caribbean. 我们与 安的列斯大学 to offer students opportunities to engage with 法国 speakers in Guadeloupe and Martinique. 

5c提供的其他语言

意大利语课程, 普通话, 朝鲜文, 日本, 俄罗斯, and German are also available to students through the consortium. Students have the option of working with language faculty advisors at Pitzer to discuss designing Special 专业 combining one of the languages taught at Pitzer with other languages available through the consortium.