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About Study Course

ECTS:4.5
Course supervisor:Dace Žibala
Study type:Full time
Course level:Master's
Target audience:Medicine
Language:English
Study course description Full description, Full time
Branch of science:Languages and Literature

Objective

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

Prerequisites

No preliminary knowledge of the Latvian language is required.

Learning outcomes

Knowledge

1.On successful completion of the course, students will: • be able to use the minimum vocabulary of conversation topics in the context; • know the simplest basic rules of the language and will be able to apply them in communication; • know the principles of question formation, including question words; • be able to name the human body parts.

Skills

1.On successful completion of the course, the students will be able to: • comprehend simple necessary information; • give a short information about oneself, family, daily routine orally and in writing; • ask questions and to answer them, to collect personal information of a patient and a short case history.

Competence

1.On successful completion of the course, students will: • be able to use Latvian at the basic conversational level in daily communication and to communicate with patients (at A1 level), •will have developed transversal skills - communicative, incl. cross cultural communication skills.