SPA 140 - Elementary Spanish for Health Care 1

3 credit hours - Three hours lecture weekly; one term.
This course meets the Arts and Humanities General Education Requirement.

Build vocabulary and grammar skills for the purpose of reading, writing, listening and speaking in medical settings with Spanish-speaking patients. Learn pertinent information about Spanish-speaking cultures as it applies to a healthcare setting while participating in language tasks through listening, reading, writing, and conversation.

Crosslisted: Also offered as SPA 140H ; credit is not given for both SPA 140 and SPA 140H .

Note: Credit will not be given for both SPA 140 and SPA 111  or SPA 140 and SPA 111H . Not for native speakers. Typically offered at MC, AM, and OL; fall, spring, and summer terms.

Course Outcomes:
1. Identify the main idea and pieces of information within written and spoken conversations and in short informational texts about familiar, every day, and medical topics. 

2. Communicate in spontaneous spoken conversations on familiar, every day and medical topics, using a variety of practiced, memorized, or original phrases, simple sentences, and questions.

3. Present information on familiar, medical, and cultural topics using simple sentences and a variety of practiced, memorized, and some original phrases through spoken and written language.

4. Combine a variety of grammar structures and vocabulary to respond to a range of high novice-level writing and speaking prompts related to health care interactions.

5. Formulate comparisons between the cultural products, practices, and perspectives of Spanish-speaking cultures and those of my own.