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This open textbook is being utilized in a Spanish course for undergraduate or graduate students by Carmen Dagostino at California State University, San Bernardino. The open textbook provides an interdisciplinary approach to Spanish by integrating the fields of Spanish and Criminal Justice with a focus on cultural aspects, such as the perception of crime across cultures, among other topics. The materials, all in Spanish, include case studies, culture readings, and associated exercises and activities, as well as vocabulary tables, cultural notes, and introductions to Spanish dialects with associated activities. The main motivation to adopt an open textbook was to provide students with an open-access, comprehensive, all-in-Spanish, multimedia source to be integrated into the learning management system Canvas. Most students access the open textbook in PDF format as an eBook or directly in Canvas The textbook is also available here: https://www.csusb.edu/criminal-justice-spanish-certificate/textbooks-and-material

The California State University and MERLOT have partnered to showcase how and why faculty have adopted Open Educational Resources (OER) to facilitate equitable access to their students’ course materials. This Faculty Showcase represent Open Educational Practices where faculty are sharing their "know-how" for adopting OER in their courses.