Paula Gutierrez
- Senior Lecturer and Lower Division and Placement Coordinator
- Modern Languages, Literatures and Cultures Field Group
- Phone
- (909) 607-1620
- Office Location
Broad Hall 202
- Office Hours
- Contact Professor
With Pitzer Since: 2009
ACTFL OPI Tester with Full Certification
Paula Gutierrez focuses on Spanish heritage learners, second language teaching pedagogy, and community-engaged language learning. She is the Coordinator of the lower division Spanish language classes, and of the Conversation and Tutoring program. Gutiérrez also has an interest in sociological perspectives on Latin American societies and cultures: in particular social agency and political and social movements; human rights, memory and justice; and popular culture.
BA, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina
MA, CPhil, University of California, San Diego
- Community-Based Spanish Practicum (Span 031)
- Advanced Spanish-Language and Cultures (Span 044)
- Advanced Spanish for Heritage Speakers (Span 050)
- Advanced Spanish Conversation through Film (Span 055)
- Spanish in the Community (Span 100)
- Contemporary Resistances in Latin America (Span 137), to be co-taught with Prof. Jorge in Spring 2018
American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages
- ACTFL Role of Grammar in Development of Proficiency Workshop, 2017
- ACTFL Writing Proficiency Test Familiarization Workshop, 2015
- ACTFL OPI Assessment Workshop, 2013, 2014
National Heritage Language Resource Center UCLA / STARTALK
Workshop: Heritage Language Teacher Training, 2015
National Symposium on Spanish as a Heritage Language, 2017