Office: South 285
Phone: 956.882.8870
Email: roberto.cortina@utb.edu
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Born in Camagüey, Cuba in 1940, Mr. Cortina studied elementary and secondary school with the Marist Brothers and later enrolled in Universidad de Santo Tomás de Villanueva in Havana.
Due to the Castro revolution, the university closed in February 1958 and in the fall, he came to the United States to study, four months before the Castro takeover.
He studied at Texas A & M, Kingsville and also taught there as a Graduate Teaching Assistant (1964-1966) and also as an instructor in the Modern Languages Department from 1966-1970.
He later teceived a University Fellowship for postgraduate studies at Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island (1970-1973). He taught at Brown for one yearas a Graduate Teaching Assistant.
He then began teaching at TSC in the Fall of 1976. Has taught all levels of Spanish and ESL. From 1979-1981 he served as Coordinator for ESL program for Continuing Education Division.
He returned to the Modern Languages Department in 1981 to teach lower-level undergraduate Spanish and ESL. He became an Assistant Professor with the UTB/TSC partnership and has been teaching bilingual students ever since.
Mr. Robert Cortina