Linda Tracy

Schedule

• Monday
     10:30 - 11:00 Office Hour 1527B Emeritus
     11:00 - 1:00 Spanish 2 Emeritus 1529
  
  
• Tuesday
     9:00 - 11:00 Spanish 1 Emeritus 1523
     11:00 - 1:00 Office Hour 1527B Emeritus
     4:30 - 5:00 Office hour
     5:00 - 7:00 Spanish 1 Emeritus 1520
  
  
• Wednesday
     10:30 - 11:00 Office Hour 1527B Emeritus
     11:00 - 1:00 Spanish 2 Emeritus 1529
  
  
• Thursday
     9:00 - 11:00 Spanish 1 Emeritus 1523
     11:00 - 11:30 Office Hour
     4:30 - 5:00 Office hour
     5:00 - 7:00 Spanish 1 Emeritus 1520
  

Classes

• Section 2123 of SPAN 1: Elementary Spanish-Part 1 -- Fall 2013: 8/19/2013 - 12/11/2013 -- Santa Rosa
  
  
• Section 6108 of SPAN 1: Elementary Spanish-Part 1 -- Spring 2013: 1/15/2013 - 5/16/2013 -- Santa Rosa
  
  
• Section 6117 of SPAN 2: Elementary Spanish-Part 2 -- Spring 2013: January 14, 2013 - May 15, 2013 -- Santa Rosa
  
  
• Section 7434 of SPAN 1: Elementary Spanish-Part 1 -- Spring 2013: 1/15/2013 - 5/16/2013 -- Santa Rosa
  
  

Biography

I was born in Alameda California. When I was three, we moved to a 3-acre parcel between Santa Rosa and Sebastopol, into a rickety, leaky old house built in the 1860's (my mother's parents were aghast). But the land was good and for the next seven years, my father spent every spare moment building us a house on the same property. That's where I lived until I went away to college. I attended Analy High School, taking four years of Spanish, which I found extremely boring. A trip to volunteer in a Mexico City slum changed my perspective entirely. I found when I uttered those seemingly meaningless textbook phrases, people actually understood me! Doors were opened! I had experiences which, without Spanish would have been closed to me. I was hooked. I came here to SRJC for a year, continued to Brigham Young University for a BA and MA in Spanish and then to UCLA for a PhD in Hispanic Languages and Literatures, with an emphasis on contemporary Latin American literature, as well as a certificate in Teaching English as a Second Language. In the meantime, I served a 2-year LDS mission in Bolivia, where I also learned Quechua, the language of the Incas. The full-time job outlook in California was grim when I got my PhD, so I went back to school, got my MBA from Pepperdine, and spent the next 12 years selling computer hardware and software to Fortune 500 companies and teaching Spanish as an adjunct. I began teaching full-time at SRJC in 1996 and for years served as Chair of the Department of Modern and Classical Languages.

In Fall of 2007 I took a semester sabbatical and traveled through South America. Wow! What an eye-opener.

When I was in college I studied German in Salzburg, Austria for a semester. I have been privileged as an educator to share this life-altering experience of study abroad with my students, three summers in Costa Rica and, most recently, Fall 2008 semester in Spain. If every student could study first hand a culture other than his/her own, I'm convinced we'd have a lot fewer problems in the world. Pretty idealistic but true nonetheless.

I live in Sebastopol with my husband, John. We have two children in college, Lily and Aaron.

Education

University of California at Los Angeles, PhD, Hispanic Languages & Literatures

University of California at Los Angeles, Teaching English as a Second Language Certificate

Pepperdine University, Masters of Business Administration

Brigham Young University, M.A., Spanish/Linguistics Minor

Brigham Young University, B.A., Spanish/German Minor

Professional Involvement and Community Service

I am currently serving as Chair of the Department of Modern and Classical Languages and ASL