Designed for students interested in developing a functional use of Spanish for the professions (business, education, law, medicine, social work, etc.), from a Hispanic cultural perspective. Students will have an opportunity to practice and develop their listening, speaking, reading, and writing skills. The Spanish-speaking world will provide the cultural context, and the area of business the content area.
Narrative: Spanish for the professions was a class that I was really excited about taking. While I have taken classes about the language and looked at some linguistic aspects of it, this was the first time I looked at a specific type of Spanish, in this case business oriented. The work that we did was also fun and challenging since it dealt with a different type of Spanish that we were not used to. Dr. Oliva made it a challenging course with all of the work that was assigned, but it was fair and a really good learning experience.