Spanish for Healthcare 1021 and 1022
Structure
· There is a face-to-face section, where students have live class instruction and activities and a service-learning component. Meets Tuesdays and Thursdays · There is a face-to-face section, where students have live class instruction and activities. Meets Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays · There are some asynchronous online sections, where students don’t have live class instructions, but will meet online with their instructor, group, or coach at various times throughout the semester. · SPAN 1021 and SPAN 1022 are each worth five credit hours. · Successful completion of SPAN 1021 fulfills the foreign language requirement for students in the College of A&S and counts as pre-requirement for the "Certificate of Spanish for Service Learning in Social Work and Health Care". Students should consult with their advisor for details.
Materials
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Topics
SPAN1021 Spanish for the Health Professions I
Chapter |
Vocabulary |
Grammar |
Introduction to the course |
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Greetings, the alphabet, numbers, subject pronouns |
Chapter 1 |
Personal information, the time, patient medical history, physical checkup Culture: “What’s in a name” |
Time, verb to be, adjectives, definite and indefinite article, gender and number |
Chapter 2 |
Body parts, internal organs, the systems. Culture: Modesty and Medicine |
Regular verbs, tener and estar |
Chapter 3 |
First aid, the nurse, childhood illness Culture: Home remedies
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Present progressive,verb ir and near future, irregular verbs in the present |
Chapter 4 |
Diabetes, heart problems, cancer, SIDA Culture: Hispanics and AIDS |
Possessive adjectives, stem-changing verbs, comparatives, superlatives
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Chapter 5 |
Emergency room, 911, side effects. Culture: Cultural differences in emergency-response request |
Formal commands, indirect object pronoun, negative and affirmative expressions |
SPAN1022 Spanish for the Health Professions II
Chapter |
Vocabulary |
Grammar |
Chapter 6 |
Review |
Present prefect |
Chapter 7 |
Nutrition/Vitamins, healthy lifestyle Culture: Childhood hunger |
Passive voice, acabar de+ infinitive, verb gustar
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Chapter 8 |
Pregnancy, childbirth, pediatrics Culture: Midwives |
Reflexive verbs, saber and conocer, direct object pronoun |
Chapter 9 |
Depression, drugs Culture: Drug abuse among Hispanics |
Subjuntive |
Chapter 10 |
Diagnostic procedures, surgeries Culture: Cultural competency |
Preterit, irregular verbs in the preterit
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Chapter 11 |
Pharmacy, dentist, optometrist Culture: The Hesperian Foundation |
The imperfect, preterit vs. imperfect
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