SRJC Course Outlines

3/29/2024 8:32:24 AMSPAN 70 Course Outline as of Fall 1981

New Course (First Version)
CATALOG INFORMATION

Discipline and Nbr:  SPAN 70Title:  BEG SPAN/HLTH OCCUP  
Full Title:  Beginning Spanish for Health Occupations
Last Reviewed:1/8/1996

UnitsCourse Hours per Week Nbr of WeeksCourse Hours Total
Maximum3.00Lecture Scheduled3.0017.5 max.Lecture Scheduled52.50
Minimum3.00Lab Scheduled017.5 min.Lab Scheduled0
 Contact DHR0 Contact DHR0
 Contact Total3.00 Contact Total52.50
 
 Non-contact DHR1.00 Non-contact DHR Total17.50

 Total Out of Class Hours:  105.00Total Student Learning Hours: 175.00 

Title 5 Category:  AA Degree Applicable
Grading:  Grade or P/NP
Repeatability:  27 - Exempt From Repeat Provisions
Also Listed As: 
Formerly: 

Catalog Description:
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Development of health occupation-related communication skills through Spanish language activities and exercises relevant to the workplace.

Prerequisites/Corequisites:
Employed in a health-related occupation, related field, or an active volunteer health occupation worker, or employed in SRJC Health Sciences program and completion of SPAN 50A or SPAN 1 or SPAN 2 with a grade of 'C' or better.


Recommended Preparation:
Eligibility for ENGL 100 or ESL 100

Limits on Enrollment:

Schedule of Classes Information
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Development of health occupation-related communication skills through Spanish language activities & exercises relevant to the workplace.
(Grade or P/NP)

Prerequisites:Employed in a health-related occupation, related field, or an active volunteer health occupation worker, or employed in SRJC Health Sciences program and completion of SPAN 50A or SPAN 1 or SPAN 2 with a grade of 'C' or better.
Recommended:Eligibility for ENGL 100 or ESL 100
Limits on Enrollment:
Transfer Credit:CSU;
Repeatability:27 - Exempt From Repeat Provisions

ARTICULATION, MAJOR, and CERTIFICATION INFORMATION

Associate Degree:Effective:Inactive:
 Area:
 
CSU GE:Transfer Area Effective:Inactive:
 
IGETC:Transfer Area Effective:Inactive:
 
CSU Transfer:TransferableEffective:Fall 1981Inactive:Summer 2011
 
UC Transfer:Effective:Inactive:
 
C-ID:

Certificate/Major Applicable: Major Applicable Course



COURSE CONTENT

Outcomes and Objectives:
At the conclusion of this course, the student should be able to:
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At the completion of this course, the health care provider will be able
to communicate with the client in Spanish by being able to:
1.  Utilize elementary anatomical terms when eliciting information or
   giving instructions to the Spanish-speaking client.
2.  Obtain demographic information, address, telephone number, social
   security number, and client history that requires the use of numbers.
3.  Give elementary instructions relevant to dietary modification,
   activity levels and prescribed medication.
4.  Interpret client statements regarding symptoms, activity level,
   health habits, and over-the-counter and prescribed medication use.
5.  Reply to simple client questions regarding diet, activity level,
   medications and follow-up instructions.
6.  Obtain a basic patient history.
7.  Utilize common expressions of courtesy and greeting when interacting
   with the Spanish-speaking client.
8.  Give simple directions relevant to finding a specific location, i.e.,
   a specific building.
9.  Describe key ideas when given a statement written in Spanish
   relevant to a common health care situation.
10. Intepret and give elementary health-related information on the
   telephone.
11. Describe in English selected Latin-American cultural beliefs that
   have an impact on health and health care delivery.

Topics and Scope
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I.  CONTENT, TOPICS, SCOPE
   a)  self-identification
   b)  alphabet
   c)  numbers 1-1.000.000
   d)  gender and number
   e)  days of the week
   f)  months and seasons
   g)  weather
II. Cognates, human anatomy, basic instructions, interrogatives:
   a)  in the doctor's office
   b)  at the hospital
   c)  at the pediatrician's office
   d)  at the gynecologist's office
   e)  at the vaccination clinic
   f)  at the dietician's office
   g)  at the family planning center
   h)  at the doctor's office for a physical examination
   i)  at the dentist's ooffice
   j)  in the emergency room
III.Grammar
   a)  definite and indefinite articles
   b)  adjectives
   c)  comparisons
   d)  verbs ser and estar
   e)  present tense of regular verbs (AR, ER, IR), and some irregular
       verbs (tener, hacer, poner, salir, venir, ue, ie, i, ir, saber,
       conocer)
   f)  hay
   g)  reflexive verbs (daily routine verbs)
   h)  adverbs
   i)  preterite of regular verbs
IV. Culture
Latin American attitudes and cultural beliefs which have an impact on
health and health care delivery.

Assignments:
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Assignments and activities will include surveys, questionnaires, problem
solving activities, and skill demonstrations; listening for the main
idea, listening with visuals, graphic fill-ins, selective listening,
comprehension checks, dictations and variations, information gap tasks.
Also questions, completion exercises, true or false matching, sentence
builders, word associations, group puzzles, surveys, polls, conversation
cards, directed dialogue, interviewing and reporting.

Methods of Evaluation/Basis of Grade.
Writing: Assessment tools that demonstrate writing skill and/or require students to select, organize and explain ideas in writing.Writing
10 - 30%
Written homework, Reading reports, Lab reports
Problem solving: Assessment tools, other than exams, that demonstrate competence in computational or non-computational problem solving skills.Problem Solving
0 - 0%
None
Skill Demonstrations: All skill-based and physical demonstrations used for assessment purposes including skill performance exams.Skill Demonstrations
20 - 25%
Class performances
Exams: All forms of formal testing, other than skill performance exams.Exams
30 - 50%
Multiple choice, True/false, Matching items, Completion, IDENTIFICATION
Other: Includes any assessment tools that do not logically fit into the above categories.Other Category
0 - 5%
COMPLETION OF SEMESTER'S LANGUAGE LAB HOURS.


Representative Textbooks and Materials:
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Jarvis, Lebredo, Spanish for Medical Personnel, 4th ed., D.C. Heath &
    Co.:  Massachusetts, 1992.
Jarvis, Lebredo, Basic Spanish Grammar, D.C. Heath & Co:
   Massachusetts, 1992.

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