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Spring Term 2014
Mar 28, 2024
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SPA 380 - Adv Spanish for Health Profess
This advanced course emphasizes intensive Spanish conversation, technical readings and vocabulary pertinent to the medical field. The course focuses on practical vocabulary, idiomatic expressions, medical terminology and cultural patterns of Spanish-speaking patients. The main objectives of the course are: To further develop advanced communicative competence within the medical context of the various regions of the Spanish-speaking world, especially the Hispanic community in Alabama; To foster critical thinking skills, such as problem-identification and solving, decision making, anticipation and planning, patient understanding and achieving communication; To expand on students' functional vocabulary, in particular, the language of the Hispanic medical world at an advanced level; To promote a better understanding of the Hispanic cultures in general, especially of the Hispanic communities who live in the United States; To further develop oral, listening and reading skills at the advanced levels; To further expand on functions and notions of the language and to apply those to the medical field.
3.000 Credit hours

Levels: Undergraduate
Schedule Types: Lecture, Lecture/Lab, Independent Study, Seminar

Foreign Language Department

Course Attributes:
Tuition Arts and Sciences


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