VARIETY OF COURSES

 Objectives:  

• Understand and use familiar everyday expressions and very basic phrases aimed at the satisfaction of needs of a concrete type. 
• Introduce yourself and others and  ask and answer questions about personal details, people you know and things you have. 
• Interact in a simple way provided the other person talks slowly and clearly and is prepared to help. 

 Objectives:  

• Understand sentences and frequently used expressions related to areas of most immediate relevance (e.g. very basic personal and family information, shopping, local geography, employment).
• Communicate in simple and routine tasks requiring a simple and direct exchange of information on familiar and routine matters.
• Describe in simple terms aspects of their background, immediate environment and matters in areas of immediate need.

 Objectives:
 

• Understand the main points of clear standard input on familiar matters regularly encountered in work, school, leisure, etc.
• Deal with most situations likely to arise while traveling in an area where the language is spoken.
• Produce simple connected text on topics that are familiar or of personal interest.
• Describe experiences and events, dreams, hopes and ambitions and briefly give reasons and explanations for opinions and plans. 

Objectives:

• Understand the main ideas of complex text on both concrete and abstract topics, including technical discussions in their field of specialization.
• Interact with a degree of fluency and spontaneity that makes regular interaction with native speakers quite possible without strain for either party.
• Produce clear, detailed text on a wide range of subjects and explain a viewpoint on a topical issue giving the advantages and disadvantages of various options. 

 Objectives:

• Understand a wide range of demanding, longer clauses and recognize implicit meaning.
• Express ideas fluently and spontaneously without much obvious searching for expressions.
• Use language flexibly and effectively for social, academic and professional purposes.
• Produce clear, well-structured, detailed text on complex subjects, showing controlled use of organizational patterns, connectors and cohesive devices.

Objectives:
 

• Understand with ease virtually everything heard or read.
• Summarize information from different spoken and written sources, reconstructing arguments and accounts in a coherent presentation.
• Express spontaneously, very fluently and precisely, differentiating finer shades of meaning even in the most complex situations.

Objectives:

• Everyday Spanish objectives, plus:

• Interact in job interviews.
• Discuss and create an agenda with personal data.
• Discuss employee qualities.
• Identify official personal identification documents.
• Discuss different types of companies.
• Create ads and small ads campaigns.
• Differentiate gestures and greetings in different cultures.
• Request information between companies and procedures in different establishments.
• Write emails to inform.

Objectives:

• Everyday Spanish objectives, plus:

• Make work appointments. 
• Choose venues for work or social events within the company.
• Create ads and promotional brochures.
• Develop a new product and present it.
• Read charts, reports, balance sheets.
• Discuss intercultural aspects.
• Book airline tickets and lodging.
• Discuss job offers and personnel selection. according to experience and skills.

 Objectives: 

• Everyday Spanish objectives, plus:

• Organize company organization charts.
• Create profiles of heads of departments or jobs in general.
• Organize an executive meeting.
• Write informative documents.
• Create safety regulations and standards for employees.
• Request bank credits.
• Create internet articles as a means of business communication.
• Talk about insurance and compensation.
• Present a business project.
• Create speech congratulations and farewells.

  Objectives:

• Everyday Spanish objectives, plus: 

• Write job advertisements.
• Prepare a curriculum.
• Write a job application.
• Argue in negotiations.
• Differentiate cultural aspects in negotiations.
• Negotiate transfer conditions.
• Analyze Latin American economies and foreign trade: International Treaties
• Prepare a business plan or a non-governmental organization (NGO) and expose it.
• Discuss the use of time and the activities of a working day.
• Discuss production processes, problems and possible solutions.

 Objectives:

• Everyday Spanish objectives, plus:

• Discuss problems in the economy of Latin American countries.
• Discuss current problems in the production and/or maquila of products in Mexico and other countries.
• Leadership, Teamwork, Management and Organizational Behavior.

Objectives:

• Everyday Spanish objectives, plus:

• Analyze specific situations of the contracting company in the Spanish course.
• Analyze some clauses relevant in common contracts.
• Current Themes: analysis and discussion.
   

 Objectives:  

• Everyday Spanish objectives, plus:

• Addressing the patient: Formal vs Informal.
• Getting to know the patient: basic questions, common responses, contact information.
• Basic Anatomy vocabulary: General, Head, Neck, Chest, Back, Abdomen, Pelvis, Extremities.
• Physical Examination: general, specialized and physical findings.
• Naming family members.
• Talking about family life and health.

 Objectives:  

• Everyday Spanish Objectives, plus:

• Symptoms Vocabulary: skin, head, eyes, ears, nose and sinuses, mouth and throat, neck, breasts, respiratory system, cardiovascular system, gastrointestinal system, male and female reproductive system, urinary system, musculoskeletal system, endocrine system, hematologic system.
• History of present Illness.
• Past medical history of acute diseases.
• Past surgical history.
• Past history of chronic diseases.
• Medication, allergy history.
• Social and sexual history; substance use history.

 Objectives: 

• Everyday Spanish objectives, plus:

• Access to preventive medical care.
• Preventive routine screening tests.
• Exercise and adult safety screening.
• Adult immunization history.
• Diet History and weight change symptoms vocabulary.
• Recommendations.
• Pediatrics: pregnancy, delivery, neonatal history, developmental history, infant diet, common pediatric illness.
• General Mental Health vocabulary.

  Objectives:

• Everyday Spanish objectives, plus: 

• Symptoms vocabulary: neurologic system, psychiatric system.
• Mental Health: Mood states and Hispanic culture relationship with them.
• Spirituality and Health.
• Cognitive Assessment.
• Psychiatric history and review of systems.
• Procedures and informed consent.

 Objectives:

• Everyday Spanish objectives, plus:

• Discuss a plan of care: additional testing, treatment and follow up.
• Discussing test results.
• Delivering bad news.
• System-Base summary of impression and plan.
• Concluding the visits. 

Objectives:

• Everyday Spanish objectives, plus:

• Analyze specific real-life situations in the medical field related to Hispanic cultures.
• Create hypothetical situations. Talk about different possibilities when diagnosing.
• Current Themes: analysis and discussion.