SPAN 220: Spanish for Health and Medicine
Fall 2022
6 credit hours
Meets MWF 11:30am-12:20pm and TR 11:00am-12:15pm
***Course Prerequisite: SPAN 202 or 210***
This course will take the place of SPAN 203 and 204.
This intensive Spanish course will prepare you to work as a professional in a wide range of medical and health-related settings. You will learn to work with interpreters or as an interpreter. You will gain confidence, fluency, and a more comprehensive understanding of cultures and how they play into medical decisions and influence communication inside and outside of the medical field. This course is relevant to students with interests in pre-health, community/family wellness, addiction, and medical/health humanities. The daily immersion will provide you with the unique opportunity for extensive practice, and the class will include experiential/community-based opportunities for engagement.
Contact Prof. Yoanna Greenwood with questions at ygreenwood2@unl.edu