Krista Hanson at the Commonwealth Club

On Tuesday, February 4, CCSF Russian instructor, Krista Hanson, participated in a panel discussion at the Commonwealth Club of California.The topic was the 2014 Olympic Games (taking place in Russia) and LGBT rights. Here is a link to an article about the event in the Bay Area Reporter and a couple of pictures from the evening: http://www.ebar.com/news/article.php?sec=news&article=69449

We are proud to have instructors of this caliber at CCSF!

CCSF Language students and instructors protest class cancellations!

Today, between classes,  the halls of the Arts building were filled with the sounds of angry and frustrated students trying to save the classes they need for transfer, for degrees, and for majors. The Foreign Languages Department has been hit hard by the class cancellations that our new administrators believe will make CCSF a better, more "productive" school. That vision does not mesh with the needs of individual students.

Here are some sights and sounds we experienced this morning in front of Arts 208, the office of the Dean of the School of English and Foreign Languages.

Some CCSF Foreign Language Department instructors don't just teach grammar and vocabulary!

Join our own Krista Hanson, Russian instructor (whom we share with SFSU) at the Commonwealth Club of California, Tuesday, Feb. 4 at 6 p.m.  The topic is:

From Russia Without Love: The 2014 Winter Olympics and Human Rights in Russia

Tue, Feb 4 2014 - 6:00pm

• Helen Carroll, Sports Project Director, National Center for Lesbian Rights
• Krista Hanson, Ph.D., Professor of Russian Culture, San Francisco State University
• Julie Dorf, Senior Advisor, Council for Global Equality
• Stuart Plunkett, J.D., Partner, Morrison Foerster - Moderator

Russia, the host country of the 2014 Winter Olympic Games, has been drawing criticism from around the world and across diverse communities for enacting a law that bans the distribution of "propaganda of non-traditional sexual relations." Since the passage of the anti-gay propaganda law, many have expressed concerns both over the safety of LGBT individuals traveling to the Winter Olympic Games and the International Olympic Committee’s cool response to the issue. Tonight we bring together a panel of leaders and advocates to discuss the implications of this very important issue.
http://www.commonwealthclub.org/node/81978

The Italian Film Festival is back!  Read all about it and see trailers for the films:

http://languagecenterccsf.blogspot.com/

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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Technical Review for Course Outlines of Record

It's time to get started with course outlines of record between 2001 and 2004!

Some of you have volunteered to be the contact persons for your language and to work on outlines to be revised between now and early next semester. This is very important, as the College will not let us offer courses with outlines older than 2004 for Fall 2014. The ultimate goal is that we revise our outlines on a 6 year cycle so none of our outlines is older than 6 years. The sooner we get to that place the better! It is important for accreditation.

Prepare/Revise your Course Outline of Record.

1. Find the old outline on the Office of Instruction website. OR prepare your new course outline.
2. Revise/prepare your outline using the Curriculum Committee Handbook and the TRACE checklist.
3. Be sure that the Major Learning Outcomes use leading verbs from Bloom’s taxonomy that can be found on this list (p. 46-48 of the Curriculum Committee handbook- link below).
4. Submit your revised draft Course Outline to Technical Review. Watch this 2 minute video to see how to do this. http://youtu.be/u-sVJktaCB4 (Or just scroll down to see it)
5. After you have submitted your outline to Tech Review, wait a while. After the review is complete, you will receive an email from your Reviewer with a link to a page containing suggestions to make your outline perfect. (In some instances, you may be able to skip directly to step #6).  SAVE THIS EMAIL. YOU WILL NEED THAT LINK AGAIN!
6.  Make the changes suggested by your reviewer.
7. Then, resubmit your outline following the instructions on the page that is linked in the email from your reviewer.  Be sure to let your reviewer know that you’ve submitted a new version of the outline.
8.  If you’ve done what was asked, your reviewer will indicate that your item is “ready to “agendize” the outline.  You’re almost done!
9. Once your reviewer has agendized the outline, you’ll need to follow the directions on the page in the link (referred to in #3). You’ll make a final copy, get the appropriate signatures, then send to the Curriculum Committee co-chair.
10. BE SURE TO SEND A COPY of your Word file TO CHARLES AND CAROL.
11.  Be sure to attach a note to the envelope or outline!

• No note, no service!
• In the note, state which meeting the outline is for,
•  include the TRACE checklist,
• and any other relevant information.

Resources: 

• Curriculum Committee Website: http://www.ccsf.edu/Offices/Curriculum_Committee/
• Technical Review Page: http://www.ccsf.edu/Offices/Curriculum_Committee/tech_review.html
• Curriculum Committee Handbook:  http://www.ccsf.edu/Offices/Curriculum_Committee/handbook.html
• Curriculum Committee Calendar:  http://www.ccsf.edu/Offices/Curriculum_Committee/calendar.html
• TRACE Checklist:  http://www.ccsf.edu/Offices/Curriculum_Committee/FormsTemplates/TRACEv2.pdf

Watch the video: