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Department: Modern Foreign Languages

Janie Spencer

Professor of Spanish

Office:

Berte Humanities Building 202

Contact Information:

Box 549029
Birmingham-Southern College
900 Arkadelphia Rd
Birmingham, AL 35254
Office Phone: (205) 226-4858
Office Fax: n(205) 226-3089
E-mail: jspencer@bsc.edu

Brief Career Background:

After graduate school at Alabama, I taught for seven years at Erskine College in South Carolina. Since coming to BSC in 1986, I have broadened my professional interests to include Latin America and Hispanics in the United States. I have participated in several Service-Learning trips to Latin America and have taken groups of BSC students to Cuba and to Argentina during Interim. I have received three Fulbright-Hays awards for summer seminars in Latin America and in recent years have served as a Reader for Fulbright-Hays applications. I have also served for many years as a Reader for Advanced Placement (AP) exams in Spanish.

Educational Background:

1974: BA, Samford University
1976: MA, University of Alabama
1982: PhD, University of Alabama

Areas of Academic Interest:

• Foreign Language Pedagogy
• Latina women (in Latin America and in United States)

Courses Taught:

SN 101/102, 201, 220, 270, 280, 315, 365, 400, 401, 402

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