SPECIAL SPANISH CLASSES AT CHICLE

Spanish Film Class
Nuevo Cine Latinoamericano*
Una aproximación a la realidad del cine latinoamericano y del caribe, a partir de la reflexión sobre sus principales problemas, temáticas, aspiraciones y fórmulas para el futuro. Discusión sobre directores y películas, debates históricos, las principales líneas de pensamiento y acción del audiovisual latinoamericano y del Caribe.

*Este tema debería incluir a Brasil, pero por nuestros propósitos de lenguaje, omitiremos tratarlo más allá de cómo referente.

Spanish Translation and Interpreting Course
We're offering a new 4-week course that will meet on Tuesdays and Thursdays, 5:45-7:45 pm.

May 29-June 10th: Introduction to Spanish Translation

• Definition of translation
• Code of ethics
• Use of dictionary/useful Web pages/translation software
• Translation of different types of documents (legal, medical, community, etc)
• False cognates
• Proper names
  

June 12-June 24th: Introduction to Spanish Interpreting

• Definition of interpretation
• Types of interpretation/interpreter
• Consecutive interpretation techniques
• Practice (role playing situations)

This course is for advanced Spanish students and a manual will be provided. Students can register for both halves or just one. Price for the four weeks is $320; $160 for two weeks.

Spanish Translation Class
This is a hands-on translation course. It seeks to develop an intuitive sense of correctness in translation through practice. Students build a core of basic translation techniques as they apply them to a variety of disciplines and texts. Before class, each student chooses his/her own text to translate and posts both the original and the translation on the course's website. Each student then edits his/her classmates translations. Finally, each text is discussed during the class on the basis of student editing.

Charla
This is a structured but informal conversation class that meets for one hour weekly. Students do some talking about themselves and read articles in Spanish that are used to stimulate conversation in class. The hour flies by, according to our students, so it doesn't take much to keep them going. The teacher takes opportunities to correct what students write in emails and say in the class conversations.

Medical Spanish
The general purpose of the course is to improve students’ ability to communicate in clinical situations with patients whose native language is Spanish. The focus of the instruction is on strengthening conversational skills in order to improve students’ ability to take clinical histories, conduct physical examinations and to give instructions to their Spanish speaking patients. All students are challenged to work on their communication skills according to their level. Students also work with a series of listening comprehension exercises.

Beginners course (For students with very little or no previous Spanish language)
In this course, students:

1. Practice Spanish pronunciation skills.
2. Practice “survival Spanish” vocabulary, including numbers, time and date, family members, basic health questions and anatomical words.
3. Learn basic grammar, vocabulary and phrases useful in greeting, gathering basic medical information from a patient, and informing them about their medical conditions.
4. Practice giving patients instructions in Spanish.

Participants work with the book  “¿Qué le duele? Beginning Spanish for Healthcare Professionals” by María Fraser-Molina  ISBN: 0-89089-395-0

Intermediate course (For those with previous, but not extensive, Spanish language)
In this course, students:

1. Review “survival Spanish” vocabulary, including numbers, time and date, family members, anatomical words.
2. Learn grammar, vocabulary and phrases useful in greeting the patient, talking about medication administration, diet and nutrition, history of the present illness, physical examination, medical history, mental health and STDs.

Participants work with the book  “An Introduction to Spanish for Health Care Workers” by Roberto O. Chase Second Edition ISBN: 0-300-09715-8

Advanced course (For those with extensive previous experience speaking Spanish)
In this course, students:

1. Review “survival Spanish” vocabulary, including numbers, time and date, family members, anatomical words.
2. Work with a series of exercises to be conducted in conversational Spanish that focus on the various types of examinations that they might have to conduct.
3. Learn grammar, vocabulary and phrases useful in greeting the patient, talking about history of the present illness, past medical history and review of systems, medications and drug effects, family history, social and sexual history, mental health, nutrition, and physical examination.

Participants work with the book  “Spanish and the Medical Interview” by Pilar Ortega, MD ISBN: 1-4160-3649-0

Participants are expected to take a language placement examination and an oral assesment follow-up phone call (933-0398) through CHICLE prior to the start of instruction. This must be done with enough lead time to allow the instructors to plan instruction to address the level of the learners who will constitute the classes.

Intensive Spanish for Teachers - summer course
CHICLE offers 1-week 30-hour advanced intensive courses for Spanish teachers during the summer. The class is scheduled for the weeks of June 23rd, July 7th, and August 4th in 2008. It meets from 9:30-4:30 Monday to Friday with a one hour lunch break. The cost is $500. This is very popular and attracts teachers from around the state. If you or your school would like more information about it, please contact us.

We require a minimum of five students and a maximum of eight for this course.

"My colleague and I had a wonderful time at CHICLE last summer during our week-long Spanish immersion class for Spanish teachers! The instructors made us feel very comfortable and classes were lively and fun! It was great to see how much our Spanish improved after just a week of intensive practice. We plan to participate again next summer!"