
Latinos, Connecticut’s largest minority group, comprise 16.1 percent of our state population. Historically, Latinos have tended to maintain stronger ties to their culture and language than have other minority groups. Knowledge of Spanish for health professionals has become a necessity in the health and human services workplace.
Southern's Certificate in Spanish and Latino Cultures for Health Professionals is a 12-credit sequence of courses designed to prepare current and future professionals to serve Spanish-speaking clients in a clinical setting by developing functional and technical Spanish language skills and cultural awareness about U.S. Latinos. This certificate program is ideal for a wide range of health and human service-related professionals, including nurses, doctors, EMTs, social workers, speech pathologists, psychologists, and counselors.
This Certificate in Spanish and Latino Cultures for Health Professionals is the only course of study being offered in the Northeast to meet these current and future workforce needs.
Scholarships are available for students enrolling in the certificate program.
Students take four out of the following five courses. All students must take SPA 318.
The purpose of this program is to ensure that there is a critical mass of health and human services professionals within the Connecticut workforce to serve the Spanish-speaking population.