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 Title : Cultural Studies: Fiesta Oak Cliff (1) | | “Fiesta Oak Cliff” integrates community activities and observations with class work that addresses critical social issues such as racism and discrimination, immigration policies, and social integration in a pluralistic community. Students are taught basic techniques of active reading and objective observations along with fundamental ethnographic principles that they employ in interviews with people in their families and communities.
Students work both on the campus and a field station, a home in Oak Cliff that is office of the Oak Cliff Center for Community Studies, a non-profit organization that seeks to increase Latino and Latina enrollments in area colleges and assists them as they navigate through their courses to the completion of college degrees.
An option in the course, students may complete a “Student/Family Contract” that engages both the student and a key family member in selected course activities throughout the semester for additional course credit.
| | Title : DEVELOPMENTAL READING (1) | | Students can improve their academic success by taking the appropriate reading courses. For an assessment of which course to begin with, talk with a Developmental Reading faculty member, a counselor, or a THEA advisor. | | Title : DEVELOPMENTAL WRITING (1) | | Students can improve their academic success and writing skills by taking the appropriate Developmental Writing courses. For an assessment of which course to begin with, talk with a Developmental Writing faculty member, a counselor, or a THEA advisor.
| | Title : EDUCATION (1) | | Students looking into the teaching field can take these courses as an introduction to education. Students can talk with an Education faculty member, the coordinator of the Teaching Academy, or a counselor in course selection.
| | Title : ENGLISH AS A SECOND LANGUAGE (1) | | The curriculum is designed to develop a student’s pre-academic language proficiency in the areas of listening, speaking, reading, and writing. The curriculum is designed to interface both with other ESL programs, and developmental studies or college level programs. For an assessment of which course to begin, a student can talk with English as a Second Language faculty or an English as a Second Language academic Advisor.
| | Title : HUMAN DEVELOPMENT (1) | | The Human Development curriculum is designed to offer students a wide range of academic and personal goal-setting and learning skills. Throughout the different courses, learning alternatives are covered, and students are allowed to explore the processes of personal and social adjustment. A student can talk with the Human Development faculty members and/or counselors for course selection that best fits the student’s interest and entry level.
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