Course Description

Professional Spanish for Native Speakers is designed specifically for native/heritage speakers of Spanish with considerable oral proficiency. The purpose of this course is to enable students whose heritage language is Spanish to develop, maintain and enhance Spanish-language proficiency in use in across a variety of business settings and industries. Students will have an opportunity to listen and speak about their specific industries with instructor-led discussion and feedback. Each session will include a grammar review on one area which the students appear to find particularly challenging.


Orientation: April 24th, 2019

April 30, May 1, 7, 8, 14, 15


CEU Approvals:

10.8 CEUs: FL

9 CEUs: ID, MO, NM, OH, OR, TN, TX, UT, WI

Students may apply individually to receive CEUs in the following states: DE, IA, KY, MD, MI, MS, NE

Federally Certified Interpreter

Katty Kauffman

Katty Kauffman is a conference and legal interpreter, a graduate of Pedro de Valdivia School of Law in Santiago, Chile and the Certificate Program in Comparative US/Latin American Legal Reforms at Washington College of Law at American University in Washington, DC. A member of NAJIT and AIIC, she is a contributing author to the 2nd Edition of Fundamentals of Court Interpretation and a member of the Editorial Board of the 2nd Edition of Sandro Tomasi's Criminal Law Dictionary. A frequent speaker nationwide on the criminal procedure reforms that have swept Latin America, a former staff interpreter with the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida, and federal exam rater, she is currently working as a freelancer from her home base in Miami.

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