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A Focus on Literacy

A grant from SCALE, the Student Coalition for Action in Literacy Education, enabled Mary Laurel True and Merrie Benasutti, from the Center for Service, Work, and Learning to travel to Cuba with the journalism students and include a service-learning focus on literacy in the course. In Cuba, the students studied literacy rates, learned about human elements of literacy, and visited the National Literacy Museum.

Two other English courses will also include a service-learning component around literacy. Benasutti also plans a "Share a Story with Me" campaign, where children at the Cedar-Riverside Community School will write down family stories with the help of Augsburg student tutors and then share them with the larger community.

		Merrie Benasutti visits the Museum of the Revolution, the former presidential palace, in Havana.
Mary Laurel True "chats" with John Lennon's statue in a Havana park. After a visit by Paul McCartney to Fidel Castro, the Beatles gained favor in Cuba.

Auggies in Cuba

While in Cuba, the class met with Ann Gabrielson ’84. She is a foreign service officer with the U.S. Department of State and has been posted to the U.S. Interests Section in Havana since last June.

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