![]() However, these data also suggested that LSP still had a minor role in the foreign language curriculum overall. Their study suggested a decline of foreign language skills in the US and a need of language courses specific for the professions, and their survey results indicated that over 60% of language departments offered some type of LSP courses. Linking their study to a report from the President's Commission on Foreign Languages and International Studies (1980), Grosse and Voght reported that LSP courses had gained a place in the higher education curriculum since the 1980s in the US. Two decades ago Grosse and Voght (1990) reported the results of the first extensive survey conducted in 1988 in the US regarding the status of languages for specific purposes (LSP) nationally. Many university programs in the US are responding to these needs by adapting existing language programs or developing new ones (Doyle, 2010 Jorge, 2010 Sánchez-López, 2010). Recent studies and their data suggest a pressing need to revise foreign language curricula in the United States to better meet the needs of students and society ("Foreign Languages and Higher Education," 2007 "Report to the Teagle Foundation," 2009). And, often times, the decisive factor for an employer is the multilinguistic and multicultural qualifications of applicants. This means that the jobs that once were available to only a few, now are available to millions. In a world that is no longer round but flat (Friedman, 2005), students prepare for a globalized job market that is open to anyone in the world. Keywords: Business Spanish, certificate programs, languages for specific purposes (LSP), medical Spanish, Spanish for occupational purposes, Spanish for specific purposes (SSP), translation and interpretation, University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) Introduction Society is changing rapidly and drastically. The goal of the SSPC is to fulfill the needs of its dynamic, millennial students and of the increasingly diversified community. ![]() The SSPC coexists with the long-established major and minor programs in Spanish in the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures. The SSPC caters to the professional needs of both traditional, degree-seeking students and non-traditional local professionals. SPANISH FOR SPECIFIC PURPOSES CERTIFICATE (SSPC) PROGRAM Scholarship and Teaching on Languages for Specific Purposes (2013) 62 The Spanish for Specific Purposes Certificate (SSPC) Program: Meeting the Professional Needs of Students and Community Lourdes Sánchez-López University of Alabama at Birmingham Abstract: This article describes the Spanish for Specific Purposes Certificate (SSPC) program at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB), the first undergraduate certificate at the University, which was established in 2007. ![]() To cite the digital version, add its Reference URL (found by following the link in the header above the digital file). If all that happens then it probably won't be a bloodbath but it won't be a Blue Wave either.This article describes the Spanish for Specific Purposes Certificate (SSPC) program at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB), the first undergraduate certificate at the University, which was established in 2007. If covid settles down(kinda has), supply chain normalizes(probs not) and inflation goes down(where you at Fed 100pt raise plz) then we can try to have a calm Spring and Summer. With progress, moderates, infighting, wokeness, and a bunch of other malarkey y'all have been just shown that you are equally a mess internally. Legit, all they had to do was look like normal functioning adults. After Trump, a subset of voters wanted to move back to stability. What's hurting democrats the most is the incoherence of their message. This isn't a "in hindsight" thing, it was so stupid to go into the cycle thinking you had some kind of mandate. No offense to them but they promised the world with a 50/50 senate. So, I'm not talking to younger Democrats, idk about their opinion. I'd say that most have realized that now and are focusing on 20. ![]() ![]() I've been telling all my friends that work in campaigns that 2022 is going to be a bloodbath. I don't think many Democrats (at least in person) know the scale of red wave coming in November ![]()
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