This is an intensive, highly student-directed hybrid seminar in medical interpreting and social settings. The course will cover different aspects of medical interpreting as a profession, including the training needed, job opportunities and sources of work, standard business practices, free-lance status versus staff interpreting, extensive practical work in the three modes of interpretation used in the medical context with special emphasis on consecutive interpretation, the professional code of ethics, and professional development activities. The course aims to prepare students to interpret between Spanish and English by fostering awareness of the different nature of interpreting, providing a panoramic overview of biomedical culture in the U.S., U.S. health care systems, body systems and anatomy, and terminology. Prerequisite: 301 or admission to interpretation certificate program.