Dental Spanish. 0 Credit Hours

Catalog description

This 10 week/10 hour course is offered to dental students as a selective. It is designed for students who are interested in acquiring basic conversational skills in the Spanish language, with focus on Spanish terminology, phrases, and brief sentences used during dental patient care to describe treatment, understand and answer patient questions, explain dental equipment and understand patient's responses to medical and dental history questions. This course is not a Spanish language class and will focus mainly on teaching dental students how to interact with their Spanish-speaking patients in the clinic. Basic words, phrases and sentences used in everyday conversations in Spanish are also reviewed. This selective is conducted by Spanish-fluent dental students for their student peers who desire to enhance their ability to communicate with Spanish-speaking patients. Students in DENH 4928 complete pre and post-tests to measure their progress in recognizing basic Spanish terminology, phrases and brief/simple sentences that will be useful to know in the dental clinic. There is no required pass-level on the post-test; the test is for self-assessment purposes.