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Tel: 1-707-965-6509
Email: sgarcia@puc.edu
Smirna Garcia, M.A.
Assistant Professor of World Languages
Smirna Garcia-Ramiez began teaching at PUC in 2019. Prior to PUC she worked at Rio Lindo Adventist Academy for twelve years where she was the Spanish and ESL teacher, as well as the director of the TOEFL iBT test center. Smirna has also taught in Yap, Federated States of Micronesia, Sagunto, Spain, and was a principal and teacher in an elementary school in Tulsa, OK. She holds a B.A. in Spanish and Journalism from Universidad Autónoma de Querétaro, México, and a M.A. of Arts in Spanish from Western Michigan University. She enjoys traveling, swimming, and hiking the PUC trails with her family.
Degrees
B.A., Universidad Autónoma de Querétaro
2000
M.A., Western Michigan University
2002
Tel: 1-707-965-6510
Email: srasi@puc.edu
Sylvia Rasi Gregorutti, Ph.D. - Chair
Professor of World Languages
Sylvia Rasi Gregorutti specializes in applied and sociolinguistics. She has worked as a Foreign Language Testing Specialist at the Center for Applied Linguistics and has taught ESL teacher training, Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese at the college level as well as linguistics, literature, film, business and medical Spanish. She was recipient of a Title VII Fellowship in Bilingual Education from the U.S. Department of Education. Her hobbies and interests include linguistics, anthropology, archeology, international travel, and gardening.