Community-Engaged Courses

The Latin American, Caribbean, and Latinx Studies program offers community-engaged courses where students can become active members of their community while in a Bowdoin classroom.

Professors in our program design courses and experiences which directly engage with the larger Brunswick and Portland communities. As a complement to their work in LACLaS courses, students expand their knowledge through these immersive course experiences.

INTD 2516: Teaching Languages and Cultures (Professor Margaret Boyle) This course addresses the intersections between world language pedagogy, antibias education, and metalinguistic awareness. Through engagement with current research, students will explore theories of language acquisition and practices of intercultural communication from infancy through adulthood. The course will foster engagement in reflective practice concerning teaching and learning languages and cultures in the classroom, including designing and implementing short lesson plans tied to curricular goals. Students will develop oral and written proficiencies to engage with movements in language advocacy and representation. These experiences will be supported by a partnership with a team of Brunswick public school teachers and the Multilingual Mainers program. The course is open to all students with at least intermediate proficiency in a language other than English, and students can earn credit in our program f they are teaching a language tied to these regions (past examples include Spanish, Portuguese, and French).