Oct 28, 2024  
2024-2025 Catalog 
    
2024-2025 Catalog

SPA 140H - Elementary Spanish for Health Care 1 - Honors

3 credit hours - Three hours lecture weekly; one term.
This is an honors course.

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.

Prerequisite(s): Eligibility for Honors courses. 

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

Note: Credit is not given for both SPA 140H and SPA 111  and also SPA 111H . Not for native speakers.

Location(s) Typically Offered: Arnold Main Campus (MC), Arundel Mills (AM), and Online (OL)

Term(s) Typically Offered: Fall, spring, and summer

Course Outcomes:
Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to:

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.