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About Study Course

Credit points / ECTS:6 / 9
Course supervisor:Dace Žibala
Course level:Master's
Target audience:Medicine
Branch of science:Linguistics

Objective

To acquire Latvian at the basic conversational level in order to be able to use it in daily communication and for academic purposes – to communicate with patients (at level A1/A2).

Prerequisites

No preliminary knowledge of the Latvian language is required.

Learning outcomes

Knowledge

On successful completion of the course, students will:
• know the lexical minimum of conversational themes;
• know the simplest language rules;
• know the principles of question formation, including question words;
• be able to name the human body parts, bones and internal organs;
• know the most common symptoms of diseases and disorders covered during the course.

Skills

On successful completion of the course, the students will be able to:
• comprehend simple necessary information;
• give information about oneself, family, studies, daily routine orally and in writing;
• ask questions and to answer them;
• use medical terminology in communication with a patient, to take patient`s history (main data);
• give simple instructions to the patient during the examination.

Competence

On successful completion of the course, students will be able to use Latvian at conversational level in daily communication and to use the acquired medical terminology in studies (to communicate with patients) (at A1 level).

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