Author: w267q938@wichita.edu

For the first time in three years, the Spanish program is offering SPAN 547: Spanish in the U.S. for students interested in learning more about the social context of Spanish in the United States, including the study of language and Latine health.

The course will be offered this fall and counts as an elective toward an undergraduate major in Spanish and a Master of Arts. The course is only very rarely offered, so don’t miss this opportunity to learn about Spanish and Spanish speakers in the world around you here in Kansas and in the United States.

The CRN for the course is 11829 and is from 4:30 to 5:45 p.m. Mondays and Wednesdays for the full fall semester.

Proposals are open for the 54th Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Association of the Southwest (LASSO). Under the theme, “Borderless Language,” participants will explore multilingual and multicultural research that addresses crucial issues such as language and social justice, critical pedagogies, language in healthcare, language maintenance and revitalization, and sociolinguistics. The conference will be hosted at Wichita State University.

Don’t miss this opportunity to connect, learn and engage with leading research and be part of thought-provoking conversations that promote community engagement and work towards creating a more inclusive, equitable world through the power of language.

Do you want to be prepared to care for patients with non-English language preference? Alce su Voz’s professional development videos examine the best practices for the care of linguistically diverse patients, clinician language proficiency testing, and clinician language self-assessment.

Alce su Voz’s latest policy paper, “Enhancing Infrastructure for Equitable Healthcare Language Access Services in Kansas,” examines laws regarding language access in healthcare, highlights findings from the study on the gaps in language access services in Kansas and provides recommendations for meaningful improvements toward a healthier state.