Intermed SPAN:Health Sciences

3 Credits · Level: Undergraduate

This is a mid- to high-intermediate course that will teach the vocabulary and structures necessary to be conversant in topics related to Public Health in Spanish. The grammar content is similar to an Intermediate II course, the only difference lies in the vocabulary that we will be mastering. Public health is the science that promotes and helps to protect the health of people and communities. Alongside with expanding the grammar learned in previous courses and with a highly conversational approach, participants will learn about different health problems that affect our society. Doing readings about these problems, listening to mini-lectures on these topics, watching videos on these topics, translating posters and brochures, doing research on what initiatives the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) suggests, we will learn what health problems affect which groups, what the basic symptoms are and we will discuss methods of prevention and treatment at the individual as well as at the community level. Some topics to be discussed are Flu, Diabetes, Disabilities, Coronavirus, Alcohol, Sexually transmitted diseases, Cancer, etc. We will also have an overview of the Public Health Systems in some Latin American countries. Prerequisite: Intermediate I or equivalent, or permission by the instructor.