10/11/2024 7:40:02 AM	SPAN 70 Course Outline as of Summer 2011	Inactive Course
CATALOG INFORMATION
Discipline and Nbr:  SPAN 70	Title:  BEG SPAN/HLTH OCCUP
Full Title:  Beginning Spanish for Health Occupations
Last Reviewed:1/8/1996

Units		Course Hours per Week			Nbr of Weeks	Course Hours Total
Maximum	3.00	Lecture Scheduled	3.00		17.5 max.	Lecture Scheduled	52.50
Minimum	3.00	Lab Scheduled	0		17.5 min.	Lab Scheduled	0
		Contact DHR	0			Contact DHR	0
		Contact Total	3.00			Contact Total	52.50
		Non-contact DHR	1.00			Non-contact DHR Total	17.50

Total Out of Class Hours:  105.00

Total 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:

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
Description:

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:
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:		Effective:		Inactive:
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:

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

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:

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:

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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