33 courses with the subject SPAN, each shown exactly as we captured it from the college's catalog, with every element we hold. Where the wording looks broken, that is our reading of the catalog, not the college's text.
SPAN 311Health and Environment in Latin American and Latinx Contexts4
Credits: This course is designed for students planning to work in the health care field and who want to acquire more skills in medical Spanish. We will develop new critical perspectives on health care for Latin Americans and Hispanics in the US through the study of literature, language, and culture. Specifically, we will develop medical language skills and cultural competency for health care situations. Outside class students will participate as an informal intern and perform a variety of tasks with the Shelby County Health Equity Collective. The work will focus on Latinx patients and include shadowing an interpreter, filing, other tasks as relevant, etc. (for nursing students, also taking vitals). Students will also attend seminars at local non-profits. We will learn about cultural humility, the legalities of medical records, issues of confidentiality, informed consent, and patient privacy/rights. We will also gather information about other programs geared toward the Latin American and Latinx community. Finally, we will learn about the WIC (Women, Infant, Children) program, communicable diseases, cultural, and environmental health issues for Latinx in the Mid-South.
SPAN 314Andes, Amazon, and Galápagos: Representations and Debates (Spanish)4
Credits: With opportunities to develop relevant theoretical lenses, the course explores via those tools a selection of literary, cinematic, and journalistic representations of the Andes, the Amazon region, and the Galápagos. This course is offered in the Global Environmental Challenges in Ecuador semester course. Three basic criteria determine the course selections: 1) texts that could be classified as eco-literature and that treat Andean, Amazonian, or Galapagoan environmental themes; 2) from Andean, Amazonian, and Galapagoan texts that are not necessarily classifiable as eco-literature, fragments that are centered on environmental issues; and 3) in both previous criteria, special effort is made to select fiction, poetry, essays, media, and cultural products that represent themes and debates students encounter in the two environmental studies courses of the program.
SPAN 324Text at Street Level: 19th-Century Urban Literature4
Credits: This course will examine the various uses of Madrid as a literary setting during the 19th century, from urban theater to costumbrista literature. The readings will include essays, poems, short stories, one-act plays, and urban theory. Students will learn to make connections between the literature of the time and the lived, historical experience of the city, often making comparisons with how we navigate cities in the 21st century and what our urban “texts” are today.