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CURRICULUM VITAE
CLARA SOTELO

Courses taught:
Elementary Spanish I and I-Global (MLS 131, 132): foundational courses emphasizing the basic skills: listening, speaking, reading, and writing.  These courses fulfilled the foreign language general education requirement in a special way for they were part of the Global Learning Communities, a program that emphasized interdisciplinary and cross-cultural practices.

Advanced Conversation and Composition I and II (MLS 331, 332):  Third year of Spanish designed for students to reach advanced levels of proficiency in Spanish.  Brief oral and written projects are required throughout the two semesters.

Culture and Civilization of Spain (MLS 336); Culture and Civilization of Hispanic America (MLS 337): Two courses recommended after the conversational level to acquaint students with the major cultural and historical traits of Spain and Hispanic America. Final paper and/or project  required.

Introduction to Peninsular Literature (MLS 431); Introduction to Spanish American Literature (MLS 432): A brief but intense voyage through some of the major writers and literary movements of Spain and Hispanic America. Final paper is required.

Special Methods  (for Spanish-Education majors--MLS 360): A review of the most recent theories of teaching, the most successful methods available for learning, and the most important achievements of the foreign language field.

As Coordinator of the Modern Language Area:
Supervised area faculty.  Managed area budget and expenditure.  Directed curriculum and/or academic program revisions or updating.  Visited and evaluated once a semester language classes at the various satellite branches of the institution in the state of Florida.
     
As Assistant Professor of the Humanities Division:
Chaired the Annual Humanities Advisory Council Seminar for 1999-2000. Co-chaired the Annual Humanities Advisory Council Seminar for 1998-99.
Member of the “Jessie Ball duPont Endowment for the Humanities.”

As a faculty member of Bethune-Cookman College:
Member of the “General Education Council”, which works in the assessment of the general education and recommends changes in the curriculum.
Member of the “Teacher Education Program:” Planning and providing a course of study designed to prepare students within the Division of Education to become teachers for Florida Schools.

Courses taught:
Independent Study "Introduction to Contemporary Spanish American Literature." Several major novels and short stories were assigned for reading, discussion and written analysis.

Intermediate Spanish I; Intermediate Spanish II (SPN 2200 and SPN 2201), a 3-hour second year sequence whose primary goal was to help students acquire language proficiency while reviewing and broadening their grammar foundations and getting exposed to cultural aspects of the language. Textbook: Levy-Konesky, Dagget Cecsarini. Fronteras

Beginning Spanish I; Beginning Spanish II (SPN 1130 and SPN 1131), a 10-hour elementary sequence. Natural method with enriched input.

Assistant to Graduate Research Professor Adolfo Prieto

Instructor of beginning, intermediate and advanced Spanish for native speakers of English, French, Portuguese and Italian.

Taught reading and writing skills to working women of marginal sectors.

Research Project: "El proceso de formación de la clase obrera de Bogotá. Aspectos ideológicos y culturales."

Taught: beginning and intermediate English for native speakers of Spanish.

Taught Spanish, and English as a second language, to elementary school students.

Marginal Neighborhoods; Bogotá, Colombia
Taught reading/writing skills to migrant and urban workers of poor districts.

“The Diaspora in Hispanic America: Bringing other African Perspectives into the Spanish Classroom at Bethune-Cookman College.” A research project funded by the B-CC Research Foundation to develop a teaching document that will be used as complementary material for elementary, intermediate and conversational Spanish courses.

“Power and Meaning in Latin America: A Feminist Perspective.” LASA, Washington, DC, Sept. 6-8, 2001

“La estrategia del caracol o la astucia de la clase media colombiana.” Paper read at the International Symposium on Latin American Film, Richmond, Virginia. March 22-24, 2001.

“Mujer y Testimonio en America Latina.”  Paper read at the Twentieth-Century Literature Conference.”  University of Louisville, Louisville,
Kentucky. February 24-26, 2000.

“El no espacio del testimonio latinoamericano.” Paper read at the 11th Annual Conference of Languages and Literatures: “The Poetics of Space.”
State University of New York, at Binghamton.  March 11-12, 2000.

“El papel del testimonio en el estudio de la Revolución Nicaraguense.” Paper read at the “Latin American Literatures and Cultures Conference.”
University of Southern Colorado, Pueblo, Colorado. March 4-6, 1999.

"El testimonio: una manera alternativa de narrar y de hacer historia." Invited paper read at the conference "Estudios literarios: relecturas,
imaginación y resistencia." Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia. April 3, 1994.

"Del estructuralismo al posestructuralismo: ¿continuidad o rompimiento?" Graduate Student Forum, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá,
Colombia. June 8, 1993.

"The Condition of Women in Colombia" invited paper read at the Annual Meeting of the American Association for University Women. Washington,
D.C, 1992.

"El testimonio: una manera alternativa de narrar y de hacer historia."Texto y Contexto 28 (1995): 67-97.

“The African Diaspora in Hispanic-America: An Overview.” Bethune-Cookman College Research Journal 1 (2002):65-70.
     
Poesía. Estandarte.com No. 270. Online. Internet. 10-11 abril, 2003.

Outstanding Academic Achievement; Office of International Studies and Programs and the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, U. of Florida

“Discover Florida:” A musical performance for students of Newberry Elementary School, Newberry, Florida. March, 2003

A non-profit organization out of Ormond Beach, which provides services to the community and promotes peaceful relations with foreign people in the area by means of educational and cultural events.

Vice-president of this nonprofit organization dedicated to promote and     develop a better understanding between young African-Americans and young people from other racial and ethnic backgrounds in the Caribbean region.

“Reaching out to the Foreign Community,” a project aiming at servicing foreign parents and their children as they come to this country with no knowledge of English.

Intensive Italian language and civilization course through the Language Study     Link, at the Torre di Babele School in Rome, Summer, 1998. “Great Books Basic Leader Training Course” Daytona Beach, fall 2000.

Spanish: Speaking, reading, writing and comprehension. Native.
English: Speaking, reading, writing and comprehension. Near-native.
French:  Speaking, reading, writing and comprehension. Advanced.  
Italian: Speaking, reading, writing and comprehension. Advanced.
Portuguese: Speaking, reading and comprehension. Advanced.