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The course explores community engagement, migration and diaspora in the UK more broadly, and the Spanish and Latin American communities more specifically, considering different methodologies and approaches in multilingual contexts. The course will analyse ideas of community and the ethical implications of working with diverse communities. This is a project-centred course, which will develop active learning strategies, where students will discuss and reflect on how to engage with multilingual communities, organisations and partners, put their academic skills in practice and contribute to the local community.

20 x 1hr sessions across both semesters as scheduled on MyCampus.

This is one of the honours options in SMLC and may not run every year. The options which are running this session are available on MyCampus.

Available to all students fulfilling requirements for Honours entry into Honours Spanish, and by arrangement to visiting students or students of other Single Honours programmes who qualify under the University's 25% regulation.

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The standard assessments for this course are:

■ Community project design (group-work/team-work) (1000 words) - 25%

■ Oral presentation (5 minutes) - 15%

■ Essay (2500 words) - 60%

If required, for instance where a disability prevents a student from undertaking a specific method of assessment, the following alternatives are available:

■ An individual community project design as alternative to a group community project design. An extension to the deadline can be offered as reasonable adjustment (students should follow the usual process for extensions).

■ Recorded oral presentation and one-to-one Q&A with tutor as an alternative to the oral presentation.

■ There is no alternative to the essay, but an extension to the deadline can be offered as reasonable adjustment (students should follow the usual process for extensions).

Further reasonable adjustments may be provided where necessary. Students are encouraged to consult with the course convenor.

This course aims to:

■ Give students a broad theoretical understanding of contemporary migration, focusing on the study of the Latin American migrant communities in the UK

■ Analyse key concepts such as transnationalism, human rights, citizenship, integration, cultural diversity and multilingualism 

■ Explore the role of community engagement and community development in multilingual contexts, and identify challenges and barriers to service access and provision by the Spanish-speaking and Latin American communities in the UK 

■ Develop students' skills, interests, and talents in practical areas of community engagement, from art project design, community translation, social media communication to video or zine production in Spanish 

■ Integrate community engagement with teaching and research in the target language 

By the end of this course students will be able to:

■ Critically analyse theoretical arguments from the fields of Migration and Diaspora Studies, ethnic minorities and multilingualism 

■ discuss community engagement methods and practices 

■ Identify community-based public and private services that provide assistance and advocacy for migrant communities in the UK 

■ Reflect on their own learning process 

■ Develop a series of transferable skills such as problem-solving skills, project design and teamwork 

■ Communicate effectively in written and oral forms.