Juan Carlos Rodriguez
SPAN 4150
Spring 2023
Spring 2017

In this course, students will learn about sustainable development while completing 30 hours of community service in Atlanta's Latino community. Students will complete their service at three community organizations (Latin American Association, La Amistad, and Agape) offering educational services to Latino middle and high school students. Students, in collaboration with some of the Latino students they will be serving, will produce a design in paper of a videogame (characters, rules, settings, etc.) based on topics of sustainable development. Students will seek inspiration for their games by reading local news on topics related to sustainable development from Spanish media outlets such as Mundo Hispánico, Telemundo Atlanta and Univisión Atlanta. Books for the course will include Jeffrey D. Sachs's The Age of Sustainable Development (Columbia UP, 2015) and Brathwaite and Schreiber's Challenges for Game Designers: Non-Digital Exercises for Video Game Designer (Charles River Media, 2009). Through this service experience, students will become aware of the socio-economic challenges affecting Atlanta's Latino students from different backgrounds and will participate in the ongoing discussion about how to overcome some of these challenges. This course focuses on sustainable communities from the perspective of social equity and invite students to investigate how social equity overlaps with economic and environmental issues.

Course Level
Partner Engagement