SPAN 1905 - SPANISH FOR LAW ENFORCEMENT

Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
The course presents typical everyday situations that professionals may encounter when dealing with Spanish speakers in the United States at work settings such as police stations, prisons, and on the street. It includes several topics geared towards situations such as: stopping and interviewing drivers, reporting an accident or a robbery, finding a translator for a police interview when detaining suspects, dealing with gang members, investigating domestic abuse, connecting someone to social services, supporting victims of crimes and their families, supporting a community through policing, Etc. The course introduces practical vocabulary, everyday on-the-job situations, and cross-cultural perspectives. It also provides opportunities to apply, in a wide variety of practical contexts, the grammatical structures learned in previous beginning and intermediate Spanish courses. During the course students will participate in realistic dialogues, personalized questions, situational role-plays, and realia-based activities. They will also examine criminal cases depicted in short films as well in primary sources (newspaper articles, YouTube videos, podcasts, etc.) with the purpose of critically analyzing them.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: SPAN 0043

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