Photo credit: agilemktg1 (2016). Healthcare professional and adult patient in a wheelchair smiling at each other.

Do you want to improve your beginner Spanish skills to speak with patients? Take the Advanced-Beginner Spanish elective this fall!

Spanish for Health Care Professionals: Advanced-Beginner Level
NELC 450 (undergrad) and NELC 631 (graduate level)
Online, Synchronous via Zoom

Fall 2025: Tuesdays, 1 - 4 p.m.
This is a fun and interactive Spanish conversational skills class.

Prerequisite: One college or high school Spanish course within the past 10 years and/or permission of the instructor (for other qualifying Spanish level 1 language experience)

Course requirements include: Listening comprehension quizzes, oral demonstration exams, weekly homework, in-class participation, and a final oral presentation

Permission to register is required.

Learn more, take a Spanish self-assessment, and request permission to register

Other questions? Please email Laura Koo at lkoo@umaryland.edu

See SURFS for course descriptions.

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