{"id":5568,"date":"2018-06-07T11:38:15","date_gmt":"2018-06-07T15:38:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ramapo.edu\/catalog-2024-2025\/?page_id=5568"},"modified":"2018-06-07T11:38:15","modified_gmt":"2018-06-07T15:38:15","slug":"spanish-for-health-care-professionals","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.ramapo.edu\/catalog-2024-2025\/spanish-for-health-care-professionals\/","title":{"rendered":"Spanish for Health Care and Human Services Professionals"},"content":{"rendered":"

Program Overview<\/h3>\n

The Certificate in Spanish for Health Care and Human Services Professionals aims at developing students\u2019 linguistic pro\ufb01ciency and cultural humility in Spanish so that they can operate professionally in a medical and human services setting with native speakers of the language.\u00a0 The courses in the certi\ufb01cate are designed to familiarize students with the intricacies of the language to make them effective translators and interpreters but also and rely on the Spanish major courses, focused on the culture and history of Latin America and Latinx people, to provide students with a solid background in which to contextualize their exchanges and connection with Spanish speaking clients and patients. The objectives of this multi-pronged approach are to endow students with the capacity to overcome linguistic barriers and, eventually, gain an understanding of cultural competency that would allow for building patient-practitioner relationships. <\/span>The internships with the local community in the areas of healthcare and human services, as well as the study abroad component of the certificate serve to expand the students\u2019 education as they are in direct contact with Spanish speaking patients and clients. As part of these internship and study abroad experiences, students reflect on the impact of socioeconomic circumstances as well as debates on race and ethnicity.<\/span><\/p>\n

Learning Outcomes<\/h3>\n