Classes & Syllabi - Spain
Spanish Language Classes
University of Granada
Complete 1 class if you stay a 2 or 3-week program (40 or 50 contact hours). Complete 2 classes if you stay a 4 or 5-week program (80 or 90 contact hours)
Spanish Language Classes
Instituto Mediterráneo Sol (iNMSOL)
Beginner I Beginner II (45, 60, 75 contact hours)
Intermediate I Intermediate II (45, 60 contact hours)
Advanced I Advanced II (45 contact hours)
Elective Classes (45 hours)
University of Granada: Summer I & II
Prerequisite: Intermediate II
Literature:
Spanish Literature, Micro-narrative and Modern Aesthetics (available Summer I only)
Latin American Literature, Micro-Narrative and Modern Aesthetics (available Summer I only)
Geography & History:
Culture, Sociology & Economics:
Elective Classes (22.5 hours)
University of Granada: Summer I & II
Prerequisite: Intermediate II
Language:
English-Spanish Translation (available Summer I only)
Literature:
Micro-narrative & Modern Aesthetics (available Summer I only)
Geography & History:
Culture, Sociology & Economics:
Spanish Business Law (available Summer I only)
The Legal System in Spain & The European Union (available Summer I only)
Science & Technology:
Elective Classes
Instituto Mediterráneo Sol (iNMSOL)
Most universities accept the iNMSOL certificate. If a transcript is needed from a School of Record please contact us for further details.
These classes offered at the Intermediate I, Intermediate II, Advanced I and Advanced II levels:
Prerequisite of Intermediate II for these classes:
Medical Spanish
Instituto Mediterráneo Sol (iNMSOL)
Most universities accept the iNMSOL certificate. If a transcript is needed from a School of Record please contact us for further details
Medical Spanish (Int I, Int II, Adv I, Adv II levels available)
Spanish for the Professions Certificates
Instituto Mediterráneo Sol (iNMSOL)
Available for those students taking Business, Tourism or Medical Spanish at the Advanced levels at iNMSOL. Additional cost of $195. The certificate is in addition to the transcript all students earn for their coursework
Certificate in Business Spanish
Certificate in Medical Spanish
Certificate in Tourism Spanish
Internships
University of Granada
Offered Summer I & Summer II. Must be at the Advanced II level.
Business (45 hours)
Health Centers (45 hours)
Offered Summer 1. Must be at the Intermediate II level.
Service Learning & Community Internship Program (22.5 hours)
Medical Spanish & Clinical Practice (90 hours)
University of Santiago de Compostela
Prerequisite: Intermediate II
This program is aimed at international Medicine and Nursing students wishing to acquire specific linguistic knowledge in the area of Health Sciences, both at the written and oral production level.
Course content:
Health and welfare. The Spanish Healthcare System. Public/private medicine.
The human body. Medical specialities.
Healthcare centres and the context of patient care.
Psychology and human relations in medical care.
Medicine without borders (medicine in resource-poor countries and countries affected by infectious diseases).
Public healthcare campaigns.
Reviewing and expanding on grammatical structures and vocabulary in accordance with students' Spanish level.
Lectures by experts from the Faculty of Medicine and The Galician Health Care System.
Clinical practice:
Medical practice allows students to get in contact with real-life professional contexts, providing them with an overview of this profession in Spain. Students will get first-hand knowledge about the Spanish Healthcare System while they carry out supervised medical practice in a hospital or healthcare centre, getting involved in the different daily tasks.
Students will accompany doctors or nurses during hospital visits and consultations and they will cooperate in all those tasks they are prepared and allowed to according to their communicative competence and healthcare training background.
Their progress will be supervised by a tutor in coordination with the Head of the healthcare centre they are assigned to.
Program Schedule
Block 1: Weeks 1 & 2: Morning Sessions, Monday to Friday, from 9.15am to 2pm. 4 daily hours of Spanish for the Health Professions (Medical Spanish).
Block 2: Weeks 3 & 4. Clinica practices, Monday to Friday, from 9am to 2pm. 5 daily hours of supervised practices in healthcare centers and hospitals.
