Culture and Medicine in Latin America

Catalog description

In this course students will discuss historical and contemporary medical discoveries, study health system regulations and ethics, discuss traditional medical techniques and concepts of medical care, and examine popular beliefs applied to medicine in Hispanic societies. The course will be conducted solely in Spanish, as it will enable students to acquire greater linguistic proficiency and cultural competence in the medical context through classroom discussions and reading comprehension exercises. Language learning in this course will focus on practicing more advanced communication skills, using medical vocabulary with accuracy and reviewing intermediate to advanced grammatical structures.