Academia
Below you will find a list of certain courses I took during my undergraduate and graduate career at the University of Florida. Each course chosen for this page taught me a valuable lesson I will apply to my career and life in general.
LIN4930
Language and Social Interaction
Undergraduate Course
This remains one of the most interesting classes I have taken to this day. I also met my favorite professor through this course. I was immediately interested in this course based on the title, and I left the course with more awareness of my daily interactions! I now find myself analyzing conversations, which has helped me pick up on ques quickly and understand the implications of a certain action. This course taught me about everything from naming practices and adjacency pairs to body language and facial expressions.
ANT4462
​Culture and Medicine
Undergraduate Course
This course uses the biocultural approach to anthropology and applies it to medical practices around the world. I learned about how medicine is seen and practiced in all parts of the world and how culture plays a role in it. Many medical providers in the states ignore their patients' cultures with treatment and then cannot understand why the patient did or did not do a certain thing. After this class, I have a better understanding of cultural differences in the world in regards to medicine and disease, and will take that into account with my future patients.
LIN4721
Second Language Acquisition
Undergraduate Course
This class will come to help me immensely when treating patients that are secondary English speakers. The class covered all aspects of learning a second language, from the biological happenings to the social effects. We even interviewed English learners and transcribed the conversations for analysis. This course will and does help me better understand English from foreigners as well as gives me understanding and patience to convey everything I need to ESL patients when I am a medical provider, and to ESL people in my community.
PAS5001C
Hospital Practicum
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PAS5008C
Advanced Clinical Procedures
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PAS-5000's x12
Clinical Rotations
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