{"id":22797,"date":"2022-06-27T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-06-27T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/?p=22797"},"modified":"2022-06-28T10:46:59","modified_gmt":"2022-06-28T17:46:59","slug":"camosun-college-students-successfully-campaign-for-second-year-spanish-course","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/2022\/06\/27\/camosun-college-students-successfully-campaign-for-second-year-spanish-course\/","title":{"rendered":"Camosun College students successfully campaign for second-year Spanish course"},"content":{"rendered":"

Shanaya Carter is one of around 20 Camosun students who have dedicated their time rallying for a second-year Spanish class at Camosun, and their dedication\u2014from gathering signatures on petitions to meeting with the Camosun Arts and Science dean\u2014has paid off. After campaigning since the start of the winter 2022 semester, SPAN 205 – Spanish through Storytelling is set to be offered in the fall 2022 semester.<\/p>\n

The course\u2014which is equivalent to UVic\u2019s Spanish 250A\u2014gives students a chance to continue studying Spanish at Camosun and build a relationship with instructors and other students.<\/p>\n

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The Lansdowne campus of Camosun College (file photo).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cFor me, it had a lot to do with my need for it,\u201d says Carter. \u201cI want to minor in Hispanic Studies and Spanish, so for me to continue my time at Camosun and keep on track with my learning, I needed to have it offered… But I think too, after spending the year with generally the same students from Spanish… you just really developed a relationship with them and Janice [Shewey, Spanish instructor].\u201d<\/p>\n

There hasn\u2019t been an opportunity for students to continue their Spanish education at Camosun due to a lack of interest in the past.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat the general consensus was was that there wasn\u2019t enough interest in the course,\u201d says Carter. \u201cBut from what Celina [Lessard, Camosun student and Nexus<\/em> contributing writer] and I kind of figured is, it wasn\u2019t really communicated with anybody looking for classes that it was an option… There was no type of announcements or, not advertisements, but just letting students know it was a new course.\u201d<\/p>\n

Shewey says that she is excited to turn her ideas into what will be SPAN 205.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think it\u2019s fantastic,\u201d says Shewey. \u201cMy goal with [Spanish through Storytelling] is incorporating story into the class in a bunch of different ways… Give students a chance to really master more of the past tenses because they\u2019re going to be telling stories and listening to stories.\u201d<\/p>\n

Overall, Carter is mostly happy with the outcome. Still, while students can register for the course in the fall semester, she suspects the class won\u2019t happen if the 25 seats aren\u2019t filled. This becomes difficult for students\u2014like Carter\u2014who need this course to complete their program.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think I\u2019m happy with it, but it\u2019s tough because right now, we\u2019re not even guaranteed the class unless enough people register,\u201d says Carter. \u201cI\u2019m taking Spanish 250A at UVic because I need to take Spanish no matter what… I\u2019m going to have to pay double student fees. If the class at Camosun goes through, which I hope it does, I\u2019m just going to have to take both classes.\u201d<\/p>\n

While the students got the class they campaigned for, Carter feels that they shouldn\u2019t have to fight so hard to get a class they need for their education.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s unfortunate that that\u2019s required when we felt like we had a pretty good base of people who were interested,\u201d says Carter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Shanaya Carter is one of around 20 Camosun students who have dedicated their time rallying for a second-year Spanish class at Camosun, and their dedication\u2014from gathering signatures on petitions to meeting with the Camosun Arts and Science dean\u2014has paid off. After campaigning since the start of the winter 2022 semester, SPAN 205 – Spanish through […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13185,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-webexclusive","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22797","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22797"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22797\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22811,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22797\/revisions\/22811"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}