SPAN312

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BILINGUALISM IN HUMAN SERVICES: OPTIMIZING YOUR BILINGUAL SUPERPOWER IN THE HUMAN SERVICES CONTEXT

Spanish (SPAN) Humanities and Global Studies

Course Description

This course is designed to provide students with both a theoretical understanding of psycholinguistics on how the bilingual mind works, as well as practical training on how to conduct counselling sessions with bilingual patients. Specifically, the course will be focused on the treatment of trauma and include readings of memoirs by Latin American writers who suffered political repression. The course will also include exercises of translation and interpretation in the human services context.

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Course Attributes

Gen Ed 18-Values and Ethics (GEVE)