Spanish

SPAN 0401 Basic Conversational Spanish

Basic Spanish needed for conversation, includes grammar, pronunciation, verb usage, use of numbers, and common phrases with a focus on the medical and health professions.

Fast-paced, interactive and fun, this course is designed for beginners to learn the basics yet be able to quickly catch on and be able to converse.   

Includes podcasts, cds, and other audio tools to help you learn.

This course is a prerequisite for Spanish for Childbirth Professionals, and meets four of the foreign language credits needed for the Bachelors of Science degree.

Required Books/Media

 
Medical Spanish: A Conversational Approach
2nd edition. By Thomas P. Kearon and Maria Antonia DiLorenzo-Kearon

Order from the bookstore  

Recommended Books

Spanish for Beginners  By Angela Wilkes

Prerequisite: None

Computer Requirements: Click Here
A Mp3 player is recommended for Podcasts

Dates: 4/14/08 - 5/25/08 

Tuition: 4 credits 380.00

SPAN 302 Spanish for Childbirth Professionals

Spanish for working with pregnant and parenting families.

This course is for doulas, midwives, lactation specialists and anyone working with birthing families.

Can be taken as an extension to SPAN 0401 or as a refresher course for those with a background in Spanish.

This course meets three of the foreign language credits needed for the Bachelors of Science degree.

Prerequisite: SPAN 0401 Basic Spanish or permission of the instructor.


Required Books/Media

1. Medical Spanish: A Conversational Approach
2nd edition. By Thomas P. Kearon and Maria Antonia DiLorenzo-Kearon 

Recommended Books

Computer Requirements: Click Here
A Mp3 player is recommended for Podcasts

Dates: 5/27/08 - 6/22/08 

Tuition: 3 credits 285.00

Instructor

Caroline Peterson, DC, MPH/PhD Candidate became fascinated with pregnancy and birth in the early 1990s when she began practicing natural family medicine. She is a prenatal and perinatal anthropologist and epidemiologist whose recent research points to the profound impact relationships have on breech presentation.

She got her BA in anthropology at the College of William and Mary, 1989, her DC at the Los Angeles College of Chiropractic, 1994 and is currently completing a PhD in anthropology and an MPH in epidemiology at the University of South Florida in Tampa.

Her clinical practice and research focus on relationships, the mind/body/spirit connection, and their impact on conception, pregnancy, labor/delivery, and infancy.

She currently is working in a birth center in El Paso, Texas where the majority of women speak only Spanish.