Learning and Teaching Beyond the Classroom (LTBC)

(1 Credit Hour) · Undergraduate

LTBC is an interdisciplinary and experiential-learning 1 credit course on refugee issues and basic principles of foreign language pedagogy (how to teach a foreign language). Its purpose is to teach you about refugee crises in the world, and provide you with the knowledge and professional development needed to work as coaches/teaching assistants in language courses for refugees. Open to students who will have at least a 102 level by the end of the Spring 2023 semester. Co-taught by Tiziana Serafini and Suzanne Shanahan, Director of the Center of Social Concerns. A selected number of students from the LTBC course will be given the possibility to work as teaching assistants with Professor Serafini in a Basic Italian course that will be offered in the Summer of 2023 to African refugees planning to study in Italian universities.