Mónica Velasco-González
Title: Lecturer
Courses:
- Spanish 145: Intermediate Spanish for Medical Professions
Course Description/Objectives:
Spanish 145, the continuation of Spanish 135, is an intermediate-level integrated skills language course. It emphasizes the development of reading, writing, listening, and speaking abilities. Students will be expected to participate actively in classroom activities such as communicative activities, role-playing based on typical doctor/patient interactions as well as other medical situations. They will also review and learn other essential tools of communication applicable both inside and outside the medical field.
Education
- Licentiate in Spanish Philology
University of Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain: 2000 - Post-graduate Diploma in Translation Studies. Course on translation and reception.
University of Warwick, Coventry, UK: 1996 - Certificate in Pedagogy, University of Salamanca, Salamanca. Spain: 1994
- Licentiate in Italian Philology
University of Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain: 1994
Teaching Experience:
I’ve been a full time lecturer at the University of Pennsylvania since 2002 during which time I’ve taught beginner, intermediate, and advanced Spanish courses and Intermediate Spanish for Medical professions. For the past six years I’ve also been the coordinator of Spanish 140 (Intermediate Spanish II). I’m also teaching and developing courses of Spanish for Veterinarians, both basic and intermediate, for the Veterinary Spanish Partners (Spanish Club at the Veterinary School of the University of Pennsylvania).
Before coming to Penn I was a Visiting Lecturer of Spanish at Emory University and a Spanish teacher for foreign students at the International Courses of the University of Salamanca, Spain.
2002-: Lecturer at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia. Spanish 121 (Elementary Spanish, Accelerated), Spanish 130 (Intermediate Spanish I), Spanish 140 (Intermediate Spanish II), Spanish 202 (Advanced Spanish), Spanish 212 (Advanced Spanish Syntax).
Research Interests:
- Currently my research interests are on teaching Spanish for the professions, mainly for medical professionals and veterinarians.