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Puente
The Puente Project is a transfer support program designed to increase the number of educationally underrepresented students who:
- Enroll in four-year colleges and universities.
- Earn college degrees.
- And return to their communities as mentors and leaders.
Puente means “bridge” in Spanish. As the name suggests, we help students build bridges to higher education.
Puente is an award-winning program that has helped thousands of students reach their dreams of college success through its innovative combination of accelerated writing instruction, intensive academic counseling and mentoring.
Puente is co-sponsored by the California Community Colleges and the University of California.
Puente students . . .
• Take a rigorous two-course English class sequence (English 1AS in the Fall semester and English 5 in the Spring semester) from a Puente teacher. The writing courses integrate Latino topics and Latino literature.
• Take a personal development course in the Fall and Spring semesters, which provides career and major development, team building, and transfer preparation.
• Work closely with Puente-trained counselors to prepare their educational plans and remain focused on their academic goals.
• Participate in activities with mentors from the professional community.
• Participate in educational field trips, including 4-year college visits.
• Communicate with the Puente teacher and counselor for support with their educational endeavors.
Who is Eligible?
All CCC students who are eligible to enroll in English 1AS in the Fall semester are eligible for the Puente Project. Students must possess a desire to transfer to a four-year college or university.
Faculty/Contact
English Instructor / Co-Coordinator
Sabina Letang
sletang@peralta.edu
Counselor / Co-Coordinator
Jose A. Salceda
jsalceda@peralta.edu
(510) 519-7701
Links
Puente Classes
Fall Puente Classes
English 1AS (5-units) – Composition and Reading with Support.
Reading and writing expository prose: Critical thinking, identifying logical fallacies, and reasoning inductively and deductively.
Counseling 24 (3-units) – College Success.
Identification and development of resources that facilitate college success: High-performance learning utilizing information organization and management, critical-thinking and problem-solving skills, effective time management, learning styles and strategies and memory theory, goal setting, and educational planning, and campus/community resources.
Spring Puente Classes
English 5 (3-units) – Critical Thinking in Reading and Writing.
Development of the ability to analyze, criticize and advocate ideas: Relationship of language to logic, induction, and deduction, facts, inferences, judgments, and formal and informal fallacies of language and thought. Instructs in writing about issues of critical thinking to develop both thinking and writing skills.
Counseling 57 (3-units) – Career and Life Planning.
In-depth career and life planning: Self-exploration, identifying values, interests, needs, and goals; development of skills for assuming careers and lifestyles over the life span, influence of career choice on the quality of life, and the development of a career action plan. Designed to assist those students considering the transition of a career change or undecided about the selection of a college transfer major.
