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| Course Number | Course Name | Credit Hours | Course Description | Prerequisites | Department Offering Course | University Requirements |
Misc Information |
| ADV 3410 | Hispanic Marketing | 3 | This course prepares undergraduate students to become educated decision makers and consumers of information regarding U.S. Hispanic marketing communication issues. | Communication | Exploring the Human Experience | Fall, Spring, Summer | |
| ADV 4411 | Multicultural Marketing Communication | 3 | This course is geared to train students to become effective communicators and marketers when reaching out tomulticultural society. Marketers, communicators, and service providers interested in being effective in reaching out to culturally diverse groups need to become adept at designing messages and strategies geared to a culturally diverse society. |
Communication | Fall, Spring | ||
| BMS 4861 | Multicultural Health Care and Health Disparities | 3 | This course reviews the impact of culture and ethnicity on health, illness, and health care practices. The course exposes students interested in a career in health care to the challenges of providing care to a multicultural society through exposure to theory, evidence-based practices, and self exploration through service learning with an underserved population. | Medical School | Spring | ||
| NSP 3185 | Multicultural Factors and Health | 3 | This course is a comparative analytical approach to the study of communication, current problems, issues, health care beliefs, values, and practices of different systems and cultural norms as they affect health care practices which conflict with ethnic or cultural communication related to standards and value systems. | Nursing | Exploring the Human Experience | Fall, Spring | |
| SPC 2730 | Global Perspectives: Communication | 3 | This course gives students an introduction to the basic processes of intercultural communication from a global perspective with a goal of increasing their curiosity and acceptance of other cultures. |
Communication | |||
| SPC 4710 | Interracial/Intercultural Communication | 3 | This course helps students gain knowledge of the theory and process of interracial/intercultural communication. | SPC 3210 | Communication | Exploring the Human Experience | Fall, Spring, Summer |
| SPN 4036 | Spanish Medical Interpreting | 3 | This course is designed to provide Spanish-speaking students with training in medical terminology, cultural issues in medicine, and healthcare interpreting skills. |
*SPN 3300 (prereq *SPN2240 1 ) or SPN 3350 | Modern Languages |
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SPN2240 prereq is SPN2220
SPN2220 prereq is SPN1124 & SPN1121 |
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| SPN 4420 | Advanced Spanish Composition and Translation | 3 | This course focuses on the development of advanced Spanish composition, editing, and translation skills. The course, taught in Spanish, includes specialized vocabulary, grammar review, sentence and paragraph structure study and development. Completion of drafts, editing, revisions, of topic-based compositions and translation assignments from diverse sources is required. | *SPN 3300 (prereq *SPN2240) and SPN 3400 (prereq *SPN2240); or SPN3350. |
Spanish | Upper Division Writing |
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SPN2240 prereq is SPN2220
SPN2220 prereq is SPN1124 & SPN1121Fall, Spring |
Community Patient Care – Child Welfare Practice Electives
Community Patient Care – Developmental Studies Electives
Community Patient Care – Gerontology/Aging Studies Electives
Community Patient Care – Medical Spanish Interpreter Electives
Community Patient Care – Patient Health Navigation Electives
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