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SPA 1060 - Intermediate Spanish for Healthcare Providers

Credits: 4
Intermediate Spanish for Healthcare Providers is a course designed for students with low to intermediate fluency in the Spanish language, with a focus on medical vocabulary, grammar, and the Hispanic/Latinx communities surrounding Merrimack College. Students will learn grammatical structures necessary to interact with patients and to be efficient in a medical environment in such tasks as giving instructions, asking medical questions, and completing medical forms. This course has a strong practical component, and students will develop oral and listening skills for use in real medical scenarios. This course will also focus on the developing of cultural sensitivity towards the Hispanic/Latinx community in the United States. As part of this class, the students will complete an experiential learning component that will provide language and cultural immersion in medical-related activities in the communities around Merrimack College.
Prerequisite(s): Prerequisites: major within the School of Health Sciences and SPA1120, or placing into 2000-level Spanish via the language placement exam.
Fulfills: FL in LS Core.