{"id":979,"date":"2020-10-11T02:25:08","date_gmt":"2020-10-11T09:25:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/spanishforcommunity\/?page_id=979"},"modified":"2021-12-15T10:05:22","modified_gmt":"2021-12-15T17:05:22","slug":"get-involved","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/spanishforcommunity\/contact\/get-involved\/","title":{"rendered":"Get Involved"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-842 \" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/spanishforcommunity\/files\/2019\/02\/PNG-image3.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"631\" height=\"475\" \/><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Why participate in Spanish for Community?<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<ul>\n<li>To improve and expand your communication skills<\/li>\n<li>Learn about the Hispanic community through direct contact with its members<\/li>\n<li>Interact with and learn about agencies and organizations that serve the Hispanic community<\/li>\n<li>Apply your knowledge of Spanish (as well as other areas) in real contexts, and gain voluntary work experience in bilingual Spanish-English settings<\/li>\n<li>Inform yourself about possible work opportunities (volunteer and paid) with agencies that participate in their projects.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>How to participate <\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>UBC STUDENTS:\u00a0<\/strong>For interested students, there are two different ways to participate:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Through registering in the following courses: Spanish 301-302 (Advanced Spanish I-II) and Spanish 401(Upper Intermediate Spanish I) to participate in projects tailored for each level. Some of the projects are open and volunteer-based, and others are integrated as a service learning component.<\/li>\n<li>If you possess an intermediate-advanced level of Spanish or are bilingual, you can\u00a0participate as a Task Volunteer. \u00a0You do not have to be enrolled in any specific Spanish course to be part of SFC.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<div class=\"page\" title=\"Page 1\">\n<div class=\"section\">\n<div class=\"layoutArea\">\n<div class=\"column\">\n<p>Graduate Students and Faculty interested can also participate as task volunteers, collaborators, and graduate or faculty fellows.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>For more information, please contact:<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Dr. Maria Carbonetti, SFC Director: <a href=\"mailto:maria.carbonetti@ubc.ca\">maria.carbonetti@ubc.ca | <\/a><a href=\"mailto:spanish.for.community@ubc.ca\">spanish.for.community@ubc.ca<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"post-excerpt\">Why participate in Spanish for Community? To improve and expand your communication skills Learn about the Hispanic community through direct&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":71140,"featured_media":0,"parent":1034,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-979","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/spanishforcommunity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/979","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/spanishforcommunity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/spanishforcommunity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/spanishforcommunity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/71140"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/spanishforcommunity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=979"}],"version-history":[{"count":31,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/spanishforcommunity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/979\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2397,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/spanishforcommunity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/979\/revisions\/2397"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/spanishforcommunity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/spanishforcommunity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}