# Credit (TIS) courses

Santa Barbara City College · 2026-2027 Catalog · 1 courses

Source: https://catalog.sbcc.edu/course-descriptions/tis/

"Offered" lists sections in this catalog year's class schedules: Fall 2026, Spring 2027.

### TIS 116 — Basic Medical Terminology, Spanish

- **Units:** 3
- **Hours:** 54 (54 lecture)
- **Transfers to:** CSU
- **Offered:** Fall 2026, 1 section (/c/santa-barbara-city-college/schedule/fall-2026/tis.md); Spring 2027, 1 section (/c/santa-barbara-city-college/schedule/spring-2027/tis.md)

Introduction to specialized vocabulary and basic grammatical concepts needed by health profession personnel and their application in practical settings. Includes an intro to medical terminology in Spanish that includes body structure, body systems, prefixes, suffixes, word roots, false cognates and most common pitfalls due to English interference and linguistic transfer.