May 10, 2025  
2025-2026 Catalog 
    
2025-2026 Catalog

SPA 141H - Elementary Spanish for Health Care 2 - 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 upon knowledge learned in SPA 140  or SPA 111  with emphasis on speaking, reading and writing in a healthcare environment.

Prerequisite(s): Eligibility for Honors courses and SPA 111  or SPA 140  or one year of high school Spanish or permission of the department chair.

Crosslisted: Also offered as SPA 141 ; credit is not given for both SPA 141H and SPA 141 .

Note: Credit is not given for both SPA 141H and SPA 112  and also SPA 112H . This course is not for students who are already proficient in listening, speaking, reading, and writing in Spanish.

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, students will be able to:

  1. Identify the main idea and some pieces of information in novice-high level written and spoken conversations about familiar topics and in short informational or fictional texts with an emphasis on medical topics.
  2. Communicate in spontaneous spoken conversations on both familiar, everyday and medical topics, using a variety of practiced, memorized, and 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 novice-high level writing and speaking prompts related to health care interactions.
  5. Formulate comparisons between students’ cultural experiences and the cultural products, practices, and perspectives of Spanish-speaking cultures.