SPAN 211 Spanish for Health Professions I
Spanish for Health Professions I is the first semester of a two-course sequence designed to help healthcare professionals communicate proficiently with Spanish-speaking patients, within their cultural norms. This class integrates thematically related culture, vocabularly, and grammar.
Corequisite
This course is taught in Spanish. Students enrolling in this class must possess the proficiency equivalent to 1.5 years of college level Spanish. That proficiency may have been obtained by taking Spanish 101 & 102 and 201 or from an immersion or bilingual experience.
SPAN 211Spanish for Health Professions I
Please note: This is not a course syllabus. A course syllabus is unique to a particular section of a course by instructor. This curriculum guide provides general information about a course.
I. General Information
Department
English and Languages Academic
II. Course Specification
Course Type
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Credit Hours Narrative
3 Credits
Semester Contact Hours Lecture
45
Semester Contact Hours Lab
0
Semester Contact Hours Clinical
0
Prerequisite Narrative
SPAN 102 or equivalent
Corequisite Narrative
This course is taught in Spanish. Students enrolling in this class must possess the proficiency equivalent to 1.5 years of college level Spanish. That proficiency may have been obtained by taking Spanish 101 & 102 and 201 or from an immersion or bilingual experience.
III. Catalog Course Description
Spanish for Health Professions I is the first semester of a two-course sequence designed to help healthcare professionals communicate proficiently with Spanish-speaking patients, within their cultural norms. This class integrates thematically related culture, vocabularly, and grammar.
IV. Student Learning Outcomes
Upon completion of this course, a student will be able to:
- Greet and treat Spanish-speaking patients consistent with their cultural norms.
- Interpret a complete and comprehensive medical history form.
- Complete a basic patient intake with chief complaint and main symptoms.
- Discuss health issues, risks, disparities, access to health care, facing the Spanish speaking patient in the United States.
- Describe cultural considerations providers should consider such as family/familismo, diverse origins, perceived etiologies of conditions, alternative treatments/home remedies.
- Define familismo, etiology, culture, marianismo, machismo, curandero, yerbero.
- Employ the fundamentals of interpreting in a medical office visit.
- Demonstrate improved speaking, comprehension, and grammatical skills in Spanish.
V. Topical Outline (Course Content)
See Course Learning Outcomes
VI. Delivery Methodologies
Required Exams
see Assessment Strategy Narrative
Assessment Strategy Narrative
GRADING: Due dates for all tests and quizzes and all assignments that are not verbal will be on Sunday nights at 11:55 p.m. Due dates are posted in advance. There are no surprises.
Quizzes 10%: Weekly quizzes covering the week’s material. The three lowest quiz grades will be dropped.
Exams 20%: Four exams and midterm verbal performance. If you miss an exam or verbal performance it will be a 0 (zero).
Final exam 20%: Written exam and final verbal performance. The final verbal performance will be graded separately and calculated with the final exam grade.
Homework 25%: Homework assignments – these will include questions on reading assignments, grammar assignments, and final presentation. Papers – there will be three investigative papers to write. Verbal recordings that are not midterm or final verbal performance.
Participation 25%: Your participation grade will be comprised of your forum posts and your graded conversations.
Partner conversations – you will be required to perform four (4) guided conversations with one of your classmates.
Forums – you will be required to post to forums and respond to other students’ posts, including the final presentation forum where you will be required to post your presentation and respond to other students’ presentations.
Specific Course Activity Assignment or Assessment Requirements