SPAN 307

Spanish for the Sciences

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Description: Most Spanish courses specialize in humanities topics, such as art, literature, or history. By contrast, the objective of this course is to familiarize students with a different aspect of Hispanic culture, namely, the development of science and technology and its influence on society. In this course, students develop their ability to understand, speak, read, and write about science topics, and they compare the United States and Latin American countries in terms of how science develops, is taught and applied to solve problems in daily life. The most important objective of the course is for each student to develop knowledge about the language they need to communicate effectively with monolingual speakers about scientific topics of interest to them.