Advanced Medical Spanish and Cultural Competency in Health Care - Level II

3 credits · School of Nursing

This is a conversational language course, conducted totally in Spanish, designed to achieve fluency to serve as an interpreter/translator during health related interactions in the absence of a certified translator. Conversational Spanish, as spoken in Latin America, is emphasized and grammar using the present perfect, past, imperfect mood of the past and future tenses is included. Aspects of Latin American culture—especially those most pertinent to health care—are addressed when performing nursing care skills. Prerequisites: Nursing 566 Advanced Medical Spanish and Cultural Competence or instructor's permission. Previous knowledge of Spanish grammar and conversational skills and medical Spanish is required. This course requires some synchronous online sessions.