Sarah Harmon, Ph.D.

• Linguistics

  • ENGL/LING 200 Introduction to Linguistics (every Fall semester)

Through Spring 2025, I taught SPAN 130/140 regularly and frequently taught SPAN 110 and 120.

My office hours vary from week to week, given that I have a busy schedule. But you can sign up for a 1-on-1 Virtual Office Hours appointment via my Calendly Scheduler below. 

Generally, my appointments are between 10am and 5pm. I'm on campus during fall and spring semesters, Monday through Thursday, but I'm available through Zoom throughout the work week. In the summer, I'm available Monday through Thursday via Zoom and in person. 

Regardless of how we're meeting, please set up the appointment through the scheduler below. If there is no appointment available that fits with your schedule, please email me with some days and times that do work, and I'll see what I can do.

• Cañada College

  • Academic Senate's Textbook Affordability Subcommittee (co-chair; OER/ZTC Program Manager)

  • Distance Education Advisory Committee

  • Professional Development Planning Committee

• Outside of SMCCCD

  • Lengua Franca Consulting (Founder and Lead Consultant)

  • Lake Tahoe Community College: Intensive Spanish Summer Institute (ISSI) (Academic Coordinator)

Previous to Fall 2025, I have a lengthy list of involvement in various participatory governance groups at Cañada College, including Planning and Budgeting Council, Academic Senate (and SMCCCD District Academic Senate), and the Honors Transfer Advisor Council.

• Articles and Book Chapters

  • Harmon, Sarah. (2025) "Marking the Trail for OER/ZTC: Cañada College's Journey in the ZTC Landscape, Spring 2021-Spring 2025”. In K. Essmiller, A. Many, J. Pate & L. J. Reynolds (Eds.), Open Educational Resources Case Studies: A DOERS Project. Oklahoma State University Libraries: Stillwater. DOI: 10.22488/okstate.25.000011 

  • Azari, M., Pell, S., Schenker, T., Moon, C., Harmon, S. "Assessing Replacements for Flip for Student Speaking." The FLT Mag (March 2025) DOI: https://www.doi.org/10.69732/CBVH9362  

• OER

  • Tarea Libre 2: Homework Platform for Second-Year Collegiate Spanish, on LibreTexts' ADAPT platform (co-authoring, 2024)

    • Instructor Guide

    • Exercises on ADAPT

  • Tarea Libre: Homework Platform for First-Year Collegiate Spanish, on LibreTexts' ADAPT platform (co-authoring, 2023)

    • Instructor Guide

    • Exercises on ADAPT

  • Spanish 120 Remix, on LibreTexts (2023)

  • Intermediate Spanish Remix, on LibreTexts (2021)

  • Introduction to Linguistics remix, on LibreTexts (2022) and the 2.0 remix, also on LibreTexts (2024)

• Other media

  • Lengua Franca YouTube Channel (don't worry; I'm not monetized)

Forthcoming:

• • Entrada Libre 2: Intermediate Spanish Grammar Manual, on LibreTexts (co-authoring, 2025)

General OER Topics 

• March 8, 2024, Open Education Week 2024. SMCCCD OpenEd Week 2024. Title: “OER, Student Voice and Social Justice.” 

• March 7, 2023, Open Education Week 2023. SMCCCD OpenEd Week 2023. Title: “Coffee talk with SMCCCD Board President Lisa Petrides.”  

• March 9, 2022, Open Education Week 2022. SMCCCD OpenEd Week 2022. Title: “Coffee Talk with ISKME.” 

Tarea Libre 

• November 2, 2024. FLANC. Title: "Getting Spanish to Zero-Textbook-Cost (ZTC) through Open Educational Resources (OER)" (with Cristina Moon, Alejandro Lee and Hugo Díaz Rodil)

• October 19, 2024. CCCFLC. Title: "Getting Spanish to Zero-Textbook-Cost (ZTC) through Open Educational Resources (OER)" (with Hugo Díaz-Rodil and Alejandro Lee)

• October 17,. 2024. 2024 SUNY OER Conference. Title: "Transforming Spanish Language Education: Creating and Implementing OER in California Community Colleges" (with Cristina Moon, Alejandro Lee and Hugo Díaz-Rodil)

• October 8-10, 2024. OpenEd Conference 2024. Title: “Getting to ZERO from Textbook to Homework: A Collaborative Journey in Developing Spanish OER” (with Cristina Moon, Alejandro Lee and Hugo Díaz-Rodil) 

• October 4, 2024. IALLT. Title: “From Textbook to Homework: A Collaborative Journey in Developing Our Spanish OER Projects with LibreTexts (IALLT)” (with Cristina Moon, Alejandro Lee and Hugo Díaz-Rodil)

• August 7, 2024. Cal-OER 2024. Title: “Continuing the Path to Zero in Spanish OER: Tarea Libre 2” (with Cristina Moon, Alejandro Lee and Hugo Díaz-Rodil)

• May 24, 2024. Florida OER Summit 2024. Title: “From Textbook to Homework: A Collaborative Journey in Developing Our Spanish OER Projects with LibreTexts” (with Cristina Moon, Alejandro Lee and Hugo Díaz-Rodil)

• May 3, 2024 Academic Senate for California Community Colleges Open Educational Resources Initiative (ASCCC OERI). Title: “Continuing the Path to Zero in Spanish OER: Tarea Libre 2” (with Cristina Moon, Alejandro Lee and Hugo Díaz-Rodil) 

• March 7, 2024 OEWeek 2024 Title: “From Textbook to Homework: A Collaborative Journey in Developing Our Spanish OER Projects with LibreTexts”. (with Cristina Moon, Alejandro Lee and Hugo Díaz-Rodil) 

• March 11, 2023 Third annual Language OER Conference sponsored by the Open Language Resource Center at the University of Kansas and the Center for Open Educational Resources and Language Learning at the University of Texas at Austin. Title: “Tarea Libre: A First-year Spanish OER Homework Ancillary” (with Cristina Moon, Alejandro Lee and Hugo Díaz-Rodil) 

• October 20, 2023 Academic Senate for California Community Colleges Open Educational Resources Initiative (ASCCC OERI). Title: “Getting Spanish to Zero-An Openly-Licensed Homework Option for Spanish” (with Cristina Moon and Alejandro Lee) 

• August 3, 2023 CalOER Conference. Title: “Tarea Libre: A First-year Spanish OER Homework Ancillary” (with Cristina Moon and Alejandro Lee) 

• May 5, 2023 Academic Senate for California Community Colleges Open Educational Resources Initiative (ASCCC OERI). Title: “What’s new in Spanish OER: Tarea Libre” (with Cristina Moon and Alejandro Lee) 

ZTC and Equity 

• October 8-10, 2024. OpenEd Conference 2024. Title: “Marking the Trail for OER/ZTC: Cañada College's Journey in the ZTC Landscape, Spring 2021-Fall 2023.” 

• August 7-8, 2024. Cal-OER 2024. Title: “Marking the Trail for OER/ZTC: Cañada College's Journey in the ZTC Landscape, Spring 2021-Fall 2023.” 

• June 26-28, 2024. Online Teaching Conference 2024. Title: “Cañada’s Journey in the ZTC Garden: Enrollment and Success Patterns, Spring 2021-Fall 2023.”  

• March 22, 2024 6th Annual Conference on Second-Language Learning & Disabilities Boston University Program Boston U: “6th edition of the Annual Conference on Second-Language Learning and Disabilities”.  This event is designed to support instructors in creating anti-oppressive curricula that celebrate students’ unique differences through exploring research and pedagogical strategies that promote understanding, representation, and support for students with disabilities. Title: “Spanish OER Development through an Accessibility and UDL Lens” (with Cristina Moon, Alejandro Lee and Hugo Díaz-Rodil) 

• January 12, 2023. “Los recursos educativos abiertos (REA),” invited presentation, College of Southern Nevada and AATSP, El Estado de Plata (Nevada chapter) (with Alejandro Lee) 

OER and Artificial Intelligence

• September 11, 2025. "The Human + AI Equation: Advancing Learning in Higher Ed." Futures Summit 2025, Santa Clara Convention Center

Podcast Episodes and Appearances

• Innovating Higher Ed, "OER, ZTC & Lightning‑Fast AI Translation with Dr. Sarah Harmon" (May 11, 2025)

• Ph.D. in Romance Linguistics, University of Texas at Austin (2007).

  • Dissertation: Gender in the Romance Languages: An Evolutionary Approach 

  • Dissertation Committee: Dr. Brigitte Bauer and Dr. Carlos Solé (co-chairs), Dr. Frederick Hensey, Dr. Cinzia Russi, Dr. Qing Zhang 

• M.A. in Linguistics, University of California at Davis (1999)

  • Thesis: The Mass-Neuter Article In 12th and 13th Century Italian

  • Thesis Committee: Dr. Almerindo Ojeda (head advisor), Dr. Máximo Torreblanca, Dr. Maria Manea-Manoliu 

• B.A. in Spanish (Minor in Linguistics), University of California at Davis (1997)

• Cooking and baking, canning and preserving, especially Italian/Mediterranean, Mexican, and Japanese foods (but anything, really!)

• Beach time!

• Crocheting (at a basic level!)

• Photography (still learning!)--check out my work on Unsplash