SPA (0172) 114 - Spanish for Health Care Professionals, Level II

Credits: 3.00

As a continuation of Spanish 113 (Spanish for Health Care Professionals, Level I), students will develop the skills needed to understand and communicate in Spanish at a functional level within everyday healthcare practice. Students will learn how to communicate more effectively with Spanish-speaking patients and their families.

Prerequisite 1: SPA 113 or a score of 204 or above in the Language Placement Test.
Free Note: This course can be taken by Spanish majors but it is a lower-level language course and does not, thus, fulfill any of the major requirements. It can, however, count toward the minor as long as it is taken for a grade. Students cannot get credit for both SPA 114 and SPA 112.

Course Learning Goals: Students will demonstrate basic conversational skills in Spanish for everyday situations that medical pre-professionals and professionals may encounter at work settings such as hospitals, doctors’ offices, and clinics, while dealing with Spanish-speaking patients and personnel.

The activities, projects, and evaluation materials for this course have been assigned in order to meet the following ACTFL (American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages) Proficiency Guidelines:

Speaking: Students will produce isolated words and learned phrases, handling simple, elementary needs and expressing basic courtesies.
Listening: Students will understand short, learned utterances and some sentence-length utterances, including simple statements, questions, and high-frequency commands and courtesies.
Reading: Students will recognize and identify symbols, highly contextualized words and phrases, including cognates and borrowed words. Students should also be able to read for instructional and directional purposes, such as some items on menus, schedules, maps, signs.
Writing: Students will transcribe familiar words or phrases and reproduce some from memory. Students will write simple fixed expressions and supply information on simple forms and documents. Students will write simple autobiographical information as well as short phrases.
Culture: Students will demonstrate understanding of the concept of culture and the role of language through comparisons of the new culture and language studied and their own.