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Oral Communications, Cultural Diversity. This class provides students with opportunities to develop their speaking performance and presentation skills expected in advanced courses. The class acts as a bridge between lower division and upper-division Spanish courses. It improves student's spoken facility with Spanish through listening, reading, and extensive, open and authentic dialogue. The course also introduces students to idiomatic words, phrases, and expressions used in the Spanish world. This course is conducted in Spanish.
Cultural Diversity. Power and Culture: Utopias and Dystopias in the Hispanic World. This course serves as a bridge between the Intermediate Spanish courses (I-IV) and upper-division Spanish courses. This course is an introduction to the cultures of the Spanish-speaking world of the Iberian Peninsula and the Americas. Students learn about the key events and the fundamental ideas and themes running through the cultures of Spain and Latin America across the centuries as well as introductory literary selections representative of the different periods. Class discussions focus on processes of conquest and colonialism, nation formation, modernization, and on the changing roles of religion, race and gender. Through discussions, presentations, written response papers and exams, students learn to critically read and understand Spanish-speaking cultures, and to develop original arguments.
Cultural Diversity, Arts & Letters-Literature. Literary Perspectives from the Hispanic World. This course provides an introduction to Spanish-language literature and to the analysis of cultural texts. During the semester, students will learn how to read both critically and creatively, analyzing the strategies that different authors use to express their ideas, create their literary worlds, and engage the reader. The course will focus on interpretation in both oral and written form. The analytical approach presented in this course will prepare students for more advanced classes in literature and culture. The course aims, then, to expose students to a wide range of Spanish-language texts and encourage learners to create more critical, insightful and engaging readings of texts.
Cultural Diversity, Advanced Writing. Advanced Spanish Grammar and Composition. This course is designed to strengthen students' comprehension and application of the most challenging grammatical structures for second language learners within a meaningful written language context. This objective will be accomplished through a thorough review and practice of problematic grammatical structures, and the application of these structures in writing and discussion sessions. Students will learn to write creatively as well as in both expository and argumentative formats. Class discussion will be fueled through the reading of Hispanic canonic literary pieces outside of class, and then students will bring themes associated with those texts back to class for discussion and development into critically developed written works. The course will be conducted in Spanish.
Cultural Diversity. This course opens the cycle of dedicated Spanish courses for the Spanish for Health Professions Minor. This course is specifically designed for students of healthcare professions and is focused on developing Spanish communication skills for future healthcare professionals. Thus, in this course we will study specific medical terminology used in health sciences, and we will hone advanced Spanish grammatical structures within different healthcare contexts. Additionally, in this course we will study different aspects of Hispanic cultures, focusing on complex healthcare challenges that Hispanic populations face in the United States; including the study of healthcare policies, customs, and idiosyncrasies that take place in Hispanic countries.
Cultural Diversity
SP 321 is dedicated to the human and social aspects of health (the patient and their environment) and is specifically designed for students in healthcare fields. In this course we will approach different aspects of healthcare that are difficult to find in medical textbooks through Hispanic cultural production. Therefore, in this course we will study and analyze Hispanic films, poems, short stories, and art works that include in their arguments both aspects of health and human behaviors that result from medical conditions and treatments.
Cultural Diversity This intermediate-level course is designed to develop and enhance the language skills necessary for effective translation and interpretation in healthcare settings. Through a combination of theoretical study, practical exercises, and real-world simulations, students will gain proficiency in Spanish-English language translation and interpretation with a focus on terminology and situations relevant to the health professions.
Cultural Diversity. Cultural Immersion Experience. The program offers the student the opportunity to become immersed in the Spanish language while experiencing the cultural and societal conditions of the country where the program takes place. The methods used in this program are intended to foster the acquisition of Spanish both in and out of the classroom. The acquisition will take place through students' and teachers' active interaction with the language and daily life in the host country. Students will read, write, and speak Spanish on a daily basis and will be required to analyze social, political, and cultural aspects of their surroundings. Through this process, students also will have the opportunity to develop new perspectives with regard to peoples of other cultures.
Special Topics courses include ad-hoc courses on various selected topics that are not part of the regular curriculum, however they may still fulfill certain curricular requirements. Special topics courses are offered at the discretion of each department and will be published as part of the semester course schedule - view available sections for more information. Questions about special topics classes can be directed to the instructor or department chair.