Andrew Mellon Just Futures Initiative Grant (with the University of California at Riverside). 2021.
WIU Presidents Excellence in Diversity Education Award. 2021.
WIU President’s Excellence in Diversity Leadership Award. 2019.
WIU HOPE (Honoring Our Professors Excellency Award) -Teaching Recognition Award. 2011.
Western Illinois University.
Courses Fall 2021
SPAN 121 Elementary Spanish I
SPAN 326 Spanish Composition
SPAN 409 Spanish American Culture and Civilization (Cultura Latinoamericana).
SPAN 492 Independent Study
Courses taught.
Western Illinois University.
SPAN 499 Selected topics in Spanish Language and Literature. Topics offered: Spanish in the United States, Spanish Morphology and Syntax (Spring 2020), Pragmatics of Spanish (Spring 2015), Varieties of Spanish (Spring 2011),
SPAN 492 Independent study (Spanish Linguistics, Senior Capstone Projects).
FL 490 Senior Capstone (Applied research + Spanish in the United States, Introduction to Hispanic Sociolinguistics, Pragmatics, Spanish and Law Enforcement).
SPAN 456 Masterpieces of Spanish American Literature.
SPAN 449 Spanish for the Content-Based Instruction (for Bilingual Education Majors. Macomb/Quad Cities campuses).
SPAN 409 Spanish American Culture and Civilization.
SPAN 401 Introduction to Spanish Linguistics
SPAN 402 Modern Spanish Syntax
SPAN 361 Study Abroad Experience
SPAN 325 Conversation and Composition I
SPAN 326 Conversation and Composition II
SPAN 320 Spanish for Heritage Speakers
SPAN 224 Intermediate Spanish II
SPAN 223 Intermediate Spanish I
SPAN 122 Beginner Spanish II
SPAN 121 Beginner Spanish I (Presential and Online)
GER 122 Beginner German II
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
SPAN 500 Beginning Spanish for Graduate Students.
SPAN 232 Spanish in the Community (Community Based-Learning Class).
SPAN 228 Spanish Composition.
SPAN 208 Oral Spanish.
SPAN 204 Practical Review of Spanish.
SPAN 141 Introduction to Spanish Grammar.
SPAN 103 Intermediate Spanish
Universidad de Costa Rica (UCR) / Universidad Nacional de Heredia, Costa Rica (UNA)/ Instituto Tecnológico de Costa Rica.
Oral expression (Speech class).
Spanish Written Expression (Composition Class)
Written Expression and the Spanish Teacher (Spanish Content-based Instruction)
Spanish Syntax
Varieties of Spanish (for Study Abroad students)
Contemporary Spanish Grammar
Spanish Morphology
Spanish American Dialectology (emphasis on Costa Rican Spanish) (Español de América y Costa Rica II)
Spanish American Dialectology (emphasis on Latin American Spanish) (Español de América y Costa Rica I)
History of Spanish (Gramática Histórica Española I y II)
Descriptive Syntax of Spanish Language
Spanish for the content-based instruction (Elementary Education Teachers, for the Education Dept.)
Communication
Introduction to Language
Introduction to Linguistics (Introducción a la Lingüística I y II).