Spanish for Professions: Health Care (205-0-1)

Instructors

Maria Teresa Villanueva
847/467-7461
3-145 Crowe

Meeting Info

Kresge Centennial Hall 2-430: Mon, Wed, Fri 10:00AM - 10:50AM

Overview of class

Advanced course to develop communication skills in Spanish for healthcare purposes. Emphasis on language skills for the medical field, specialized terminology and vocabulary, and cultural nuances in the Spanish-speaking world. Prerequisite: Students must currently be enrolled in or have taken and passed SPAN 200-0, SPAN 201-0, OR have an AP score of 5, OR sufficient score on the Spanish Language Placement Exam.

Registration Requirements

Prerequisite: Students must currently be enrolled in or have taken and passed SPAN 200-0, SPAN 201-0, OR have an AP score of 5, OR sufficient score on the Spanish Language Placement Exam.
No P/N

Learning Objectives

Specific Spanish 205-0 Course Goals
• Further develop communicative and cultural competence within the medical context of the Spanishspeaking
world.
• Ability to utilize problem-solving skills, advocate the communication process, solicit and take down accurate
information while conducting interviews with Spanish speakers.
• Ability to research and present concrete and factual health topics and/or diseases in formal and informal
situations.
• Expand student's functional vocabulary, in particular, the language and colloquial terms Hispanics use in
medical settings.
• Develop a greater understanding of Hispanic cultural medical practices, the patient-doctor relationship and
common home remedies used to treat illnesses.
• Gain greater insights of the needs and problems that many Hispanics and health care institutions face due
to a language barrier.

Learning Outcomes
By the end of this course, students will:
• Handle a variety of communicative tasks using the past, present, and future tenses, as well as complex
tenses and grammatical structures. Errors rarely interfere with communication.
• Speak in a natural and continuous speech; use of connectors to link sentences into paragraph-length
discourse.
• Express and support ideas based on the information studied, as well as to express agreement or
disagreement to interlocutor's arguments, and express counter points effectively and persuasively.
• Have control of common, general vocabulary, and some use of specialized medical terminology.
• Write work with few errors in agreement, punctuation, etc.
• Articulate arguments justified with examples, counter-examples, and real information, in formal and
informal discourse.

Evaluation Method

Preparedness, Attendance & Participation = 15% of final grade
Scripted Video Medical Consultations = 10% of final grade
In-Class Quizzes = 15% of final grade
Journals = 10% of final grade
Roundtables = 15% of final grade
Final (Clinical) Presentation = 15% of final grade
Final Mock Medical Consultations and Essay = 20% of final grade

Class Materials (Required)

Spanish 205-0 Course Packet (available on Canvas)
Any additional course materials distributed throughout the quarter.

Class Attributes

Attendance at 1st class mandatory
Prerequisites apply, see description
SoC Humanities and Fine Arts Distro
SoC Individual and Social Behavior Distro

Enrollment Requirements

Enrollment Requirements: Prerequisite: Students must currently be enrolled in or have taken and passed SPANISH 200-0 or SPANISH 201-0, OR have an AP score of 5, OR sufficient score on the Spanish Language Placement Exam.