Español Para Profesionales de la Salud

This course requires to be studying a major in biology, medicine, nursing, pharmacy or psychology and to have a B2 Level of Spanish. Teaching will take place both in class and in hospitals. A series of activities and tasks will take place in the classroom with a communicative approach and real-life and health-related situations will be proposed. Special attention will be placed on acquiring terminology in this context, on oral expression in specific situations and on writing, without forgetting cultural elements. At the hospital, students will apply what they have learned in class, they will learn about the Spanish healthcare system firsthand and they will observe the most common health practices that take place in visits with patients, in operating rooms, in the laboratory, etc. 

Offering Department: 
Pitt Taught Course: 
No
Catalog Number: 
1323