ESP Biography
BABET VILLENA-ALVAREZ, South Carolina Governor's Professor of Year 2010
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Major: Humanities and Fine Arts College/Employer: University of South Carolina Beaufort Year of Graduation: 1994 |
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Brief Biographical Sketch:
Dr. Babet Villena-Alvarez is a professor of French, Spanish and Global Studies. She currently serves as the Head of Humanities and Fine Arts at the University of South Carolina Beaufort (since 2007) and was awarded South Carolina Trustee Professorship for full professors in April 2012. She was previously the Program Director for Liberal Studies (2003-05), then for Spanish (2006-07) at USCB. She has previously taught at Miami University, Oxford, OH and the University of Cincinnati. She holds graduate degrees from the Université de Paris IV Sorbonne, the Instituto de Cooperación Iberoamericana in Madrid, and the University of Cincinnati. Past Classes(Clicking a class title will bring you to the course's section of the corresponding course catalog)H5976: The Four F’s of Learning Spanish: Food, Festivals, Fashion, and Films in HSSP Summer 2012 (Jul. 08, 2012)
Open to all students, with or without Spanish language background. This summer course is designed to give middle school and high school students a cultural edge with learning Spanish. As the course title denotes, the emphasis will be in four areas of Spanish culture. There will be certain comparisons with Hispanic American culture as well. Taught in English. The class will be conducted in a mix of short lectures and demonstrations, followed by class, group, or pair discussions and resolutions, mini presentations, interviews, short reports, photo montages, short films, mock festivals and cultural reporting.
H5977: The Four F’s of Learning French: Food, Festivals, Fashion, and Films in HSSP Summer 2012 (Jul. 08, 2012)
Open to all students, with or without French language background. This summer course is designed to give middle school and high school students a cultural edge with learning French. As the course title denotes, the emphasis will be in four areas of French culture. There will be certain comparisons with American and other Francophone cultures as well. Taught in English. The class will be conducted in a mix of short lectures and demonstrations, followed by class, group, or pair discussions and resolutions, mini presentations, interviews, short reports, photo montages, short films, mock festivals and cultural reporting.
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