Andrew Rivetti arivetti@trcc.edu Instructor in Foreign Language Office:   205, Tinnin Fine Arts Center Phone:   (573) 840-9639               Education and Experience BA – Wright State University, Dayton, Ohio, March 1993 Magna Cum Laude in modern languages Primary language:   Spanish MA – Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, Aug 2000 Concentration in Latin American literature 2000-Present - Instructor, Three Rivers Community College Courses taught: SPAN 101 – Elementary Spanish I SPAN 102 – Elementary Spanish II SPAN 201 – Intermediate Spanish I SPAN 202 – Intermediate Spanish II Committees: Global Education Committee Information Technology Committee Scholarship Committee Who's Who in American Junior Colleges Interactive Television Instructor – dual credit Coordinator, Foreign Language Department 1998-2000 - Graduate Teaching Assistant, Miami University Courses taught: Spanish 102 – Elementary Spanish I Spanish 111 – Accelerated Elementary Spanish 1993-1995 - English Language Instructor, Tronwell, S. A., Santiago, Chile Elementary, Intermediate, and Advanced English 1991-1993 - English Tutor, University Writing Center, Wright State University Courses tutored:   English Composition I and II Holistic assistance:   content, grammar, and writing strategies Other work experience: 1996-1998 - Graphic Designer, Suburban Newspapers of Dayton, Ohio Responsible for advertisement creation, proofreading, typesetting, creation of templates, and meeting publication deadlines.   Helped train to use computer software. 1995-1996 - Correspondence Specialist, FUNDES MultiMedia, Santiago, Chile Responsible for translation, correspondence, and English language instruction. Presentations Foreign Language Football:   original activity presented at MCCA Conference, Lake of the Ozarks, MO, Nov 2002 “Theoretical Analyses of ‘El hombre de la rosa'”:   Irvin Essay Award presentation, Miami University, April 1999. Professional Conferences Teletraining Institute, Stillwater, Oklahoma Teletechniques I:   Week-long seminar teaching instruction strategies related to Interactive television, April 2001. Honors & Activities Irwin Essay Award for outstanding graduate paper, Miami University, April 1999 Sigma Delta Pi, Wright State University, 1992 Dean's Honor Roll, Wright State University, 1988-1993 Biography Born in Greenville, Ohio, in 1970, Andrew is the youngest of three brothers born to Louie and Nancy Rivetti. During his youth, he went to the National Spelling Bee in 1984 and was co-valedictorian of Greenville High School in 1988. In 1993, he received his B.A. in Modern Languages from Wright State University in Dayton, Ohio, graduating magna cum laude , and subsequently moved to Santiago, Chile, where he taught English as a second language and became fluent in Spanish. He married Verónica Urbina of Los Andes, Chile in 1996 and they moved to the United States. He went on to study at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio in order to teach Spanish at the college level, and he received his M.A. in Spanish in 2000. He and his family moved to Poplar Bluff in that year, and he has been teaching Spanish at TRCC since then. He has two beautiful bilingual children, Diego and Gabriela.   He loves God, his family and classical music very much.   Return to Foreign Language Department