Krzysztof Piotr Skowroński

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17.10.2024: Seminario organizado por La Torre del Virrey-Instituto de estudios culturales avanzados (Valencia).

Idea

The course focuses on widening Spanish vocabulary and some grammar structures using comparative exercises that use similar lexicons and similar or corresponding grammar structures in English. The main idea is that students can enlarge their Spanish language skills, mainly oral, by learning and practicing similar or identical words (cognates), and similar grammar / corresponding constructions in English. A good development of this project is talking, in English and Spanish, about the language, cultural, and political relations between the English-speaking world and the Spanish-speaking world, especially at the points where they directly meet: e.g., US Hispanics, Gibraltar, Guantanamo, US-Mexican Wall, the Falklands/Malvinas.

I want to thank my UO students for their cooperation during this course.

Amongst the themes discussed:

1 Multiculturalism from the sociological, political, ideological, and philosophical perspectives. 2 Canada as the first country to officially proclaim multiculturalist policy in 1971. 3 Canada’s classic mosaic model of multiculturalism versus the US’s classic models: WASP and The Melting Pot. 4 Multiculturalism vs globalization, diversity, culture pluralism. 5 Language multiculturalist policies in Canada and the US on the state level and provincial / state levels (e.g., Quebec, Alaska). 6 Public policy objectives in Canada. 7 Ethnic, language, and religious groups in Canada and the US. 8 Hispanics in the US. 9 Selected events and institutions in the US and Canada seen from the multiculturalist perspective. 10 The US-Mexican Wall as a symbol of multiculturalist challenges. 11 Critique of multiculturalism from various perspectives: cosmopolitan, national identity, feminist, universalist, post-colonial, economic, and others. 12 Canada’s and US’s multiculturalism seen from European and global perspectives.

I want to thank my UO students for their cooperation during the course.

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