Dr. Donaldo Urioste Professor Spanish Program Office: Room 115, Building 49 Office Hours: Phone: (831) 582-3620 Email: donaldo_urioste@csumb.edu Personal Web Site Dr. Donaldo Urioste is a Professor of Spanish language and Hispanic literatures, and founding Director of the Institute for World Languages and Cultures at CSUMB. Prior to coming to CSUMB as a pioneer faculty member in the fall of 1995, Dr. Urioste spent the previous nineteen years teaching at the Colorado College (CO) and California Lutheran University, in Southern California where he also taught Spanish Language, Latin American, and Chicano literature and culture courses. Aside from directing the IWLC and teaching learning experiences in these areas, Professor Urioste has also been involved in faculty governance at CSUMB, where he has served as vice-chair of the faculty assembly (1997-2001), as a member of Academic Senate Executive Council, and on other standing faculty committees. A founding member of the Chicano/Latino Faculty Staff Association (CLFSA) at CSUMB, Dr. Urioste is also a faculty advisor to MEChA (Movimiento Estudiantil Chicano de Aztlán) and CLGA (Chicano/Latino Graduation Association) at CSUMB, is also affiliated with the League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC), "Monterrey" Chapter, and is a member of NACCS (The National Association of Chicano / Chicana Studies). A native of Colorado, Dr. Urioste was born in Trinidad (CO), in 1947. He was reared in one of the many small villages (San Juan Plaza ) near Valdez, CO, a coal mining community that provided employment to most of the area's population until the mines were closed in 1963. Like thousands of other families from the region, upon the closing of these mines, the Urioste family relocated to Denver, where Donaldo attended and graduated form East High school (1965). Professor Urioste completed his BA degree in Spanish at the University of Colorado at Denver (1971), his MA in Spanish Language and Hispanic Literatures at the University of Colorado (1974), and received his PhD degree in Latin American Literature from the University of New Mexico in 1985. Dr. Urioste's current research interests reside mostly in Contemporary Chicano literature, and as a founding member of the Monterey Bay Foreign Language Project, he has also developed an interest in foreign language pedagogy, especially as related to proficiency based language instruction and the use of technology in the foreign language and culture classroom.     This page was last modified: Oct 1, 2003 CSUMB World Languages and Cultures © 2003. All rights reserved.