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From: https://opentext.ku.edu/paravivir/

Now Available! This open educational resource (OER) text bridges language acquisition and cultural/literary studies for pre-health professions students. It was created to respond to the needs of the authors' students, almost half of whom were completing pre-health majors. This four minute video explains the text and its features.

Para vivir con salud is not a medical Spanish text: it is an introduction to close critical reading of Spanish-language literary and cultural texts framed within themes relevant to the concerns of healthcare. Para vivir responds to the calls from the MLA and national humanities organizations to rethink language programs to respond to the changing needs of our students. At the University of New Mexico, Dr. Kathryn McKnight developed a course that parallels the Intro to Hispanic Literature course in many of its learning outcomes and that has been approved as an alternative to fulfill this gateway requirement. 

Para vivir can support the development of tracks in Spanish such as Health Humanities, Health for Latinxs or Spanish for Health Professions. Informing the approach with the principles of Narrative Medicine, the aim in the book is to teach students how close reading of literary texts will help them become more effective and critically-thoughtful professionals.

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