Spanish for Healthcare

SPAN 1021 & 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 also 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

Coming soon.

Topics

SPAN 1021, Chapters 1-5                                                                                                                             

Introduction

  • Grammar: Greetings, the alphabet, numbers, subject pronouns

Chapter 1

  • Vocabulary: Personal information, the time, patient medical history, physical checkup
  • Grammar: Time, verb to be, adjectives, definite and indefinite article, gender and number
  • Culture: “What’s in a name?”

Chapter 2

  • Vocabulary: Body parts, internal organs, the systems
  • Grammar: Regular verbs, tener and estar
  • Culture: Modesty and Medicine

Chapter 3

  • Vocabulary: First aid, the nurse, childhood illness
  • Grammar: Present progressive, verb ir and near future, irregular verbs in the present
  • Culture: Home remedies

Chapter 4

  • Vocabulary: Diabetes, heart problems, cancer, AIDS
  • Grammar: Possessive adjectives, stem-changing verbs, comparatives, superlatives
  • Culture: Hispanics and AIDS

Chapter 5

  • Vocabulary: Emergency room, 911, side effects
  • Grammar: Formal commands, indirect object pronoun, negative and affirmative expressions
  • Culture: Cultural differences in emergency-response request

SPAN 1022, Chapters 6-11

 Chapter 6

  • Vocabulary: Review
  • Grammar: Present perfect

Chapter 7

  • Vocabulary: Nutrition/Vitamins, healthy lifestyle
  • Grammar: Passive voice, acabar de+ infinitive, verb gustar
  • Culture: Childhood hunger

Chapter 8

  • Vocabulary: Pregnancy, childbirth, pediatrics
  • Grammar: Reflexive verbs, saber and conocer, direct object pronoun
  • Culture: Midwives

Chapter 9

  • Vocabulary: Depression, drugs
  • Grammar: Subjuntive
  • Culture: Drug abuse among Hispanics

Chapter 10

  • Vocabulary: Diagnostic procedures, surgeries
  • Grammar: Preterit, irregular verbs in the preterite
  • Culture: Cultural competency

Chapter 11

  • Vocabulary: Pharmacy, dentist, optometrist
  • Grammar: The imperfect, preterite vs. imperfect
  • Culture: The Hesperian Foundation