SLO Reporting Day!

The Foreign Languages Department SLO reporters gathered for our Fall, 2013 SLO reporting meeting on the morning of December 17. Last year, our now retired Dept. Chair, Tom Blair, instituted what has now become a twice-a-year tradition that we really look forward to. We've found that, more than just a time to report SLOs, this gathering has become an important part of our assessment process. It gives us an opportunity to get together across our nine language programs, not only to report our SLO assessments, but to  share our assessment techniques and our plans for improvement. Languages represented were Chinese, French, Italian, Japanese, and Spanish.

World Languages Day!

Our first annual World Languages Day took place on November 14, 2013 in the Smith Hall Cafeteria during the lunch hour. Purpose? To celebrate the diversity of languages taught and spoken at CCSF.  What is better than good food and toe-tapping music? Plus, free prizes! And, we had a chance to get together, see our students, meet new students, and get to know a few of our new administrators who dropped by.

The 29th Street Swingtet provided live music in the tradition of Django Reinhardt's  "gypsy jazz", the Culinary program provided international food as part of the lunch service, and the Foreign Languages Department faculty were on hand to inform students about our spring schedule and to facilitate a free raffle for prizes!  Special thanks go to Matt Parkhurst's American Sign Language students for staffing the AMSL table.  Be sure to join us next year!

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