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Coursework 

In this section, you will find a list of my relevant coursework taken at Clemson University and while studying abroad. The first section highlights all of the Spanish Courses that I have taken. The next section looks at my relevant business courses. The final section highlights additional coursework that is relevant to my studies at Clemson. Under each course I have included a description of what I learned and worked on while taking them. 

Spanish Language Instruction

Span 3050: Intermediate Spanish Conversation/ Comprehension I (taken in Spain) 

This course included practice in spoken Spanish with emphasis on vocabulary, pronunciation, intonation, and comprehension. It also included written work to increase accuracy and assignments in the language laboratory. Since I completed this course while studying abroad, the instructor included additional cultural content specific to Andalucía. 

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Span 4010: New Spanish Fiction (taken in Spain) 

This course studied selected readings by popular emerging and established authors of Spain, with emphasis on current cultural trends. I completed this course while studying abroad in Sevilla, Spain. 

 

Span 4070: Hispanic Film (Taken in Spain) 

In this course, we analyzed films and learned about cinematographic techniques in Spanish. Topics included comparative analysis of film and literature, film as propaganda, film as “blockbuster,” and the cinematic depiction of social, cultural, and historical realities of Hispanic nations. I completed this course while studying abroad in Sevilla, Spain. 

 

SPAN 3060: Span Comp for Bus 

This course was an intensive practice of business writing skills through compositions, general review of grammatical structures, and exposure to business vocabulary and concepts.

 

SPAN 3040: Intro to Hispanic Literary Forms 

This course introduced the basic structures and elements of fiction, poetry, drama, and essay, including literary and critical theory, with readings in 19th- and 20th-century Spanish and Spanish-American literature. 

 

SPAN 3070: The Hispanic World: Spain 

This course provided an introduction to the significant aspects of the culture of Spain from its origins to the present. It emphasized the artistic, social, historical, political, and contemporary issues of the Iberian Peninsula. 

 

SPAN 3160: Spanish for International Business I 

This course introduced commercial Spanish and studied the spoken and written language, protocol, and cultural environment of the Spanish-speaking business world. We also learned business vocabulary, basic business and cultural concepts, and situational practice as well as reading and analyzing commercial texts.

 

SPAN 4160: Spanish for International Business II 

This course is a continuation of SPAN 3160 and was a study of more complex business vocabulary, cultural concepts, and the environment of Hispanic markets. We studied social, political, and economic issues related to Spanish-speaking countries and their current economies in global marketing. We took time delving into the economic geography of Hispanic countries, company organization, management, banking, investment, goods and services, and marketing.

 

SPAN 3080: The Hispanic World: Latin America 

This course introduced the significant aspects of the culture of Spanish-American countries. An emphasis was placed on the development of the political, economical, geographical, social, and artistic aspects of Spanish America from the indigenous period to the present. 

 

SPAN 4060: Narrative Fiction 

This course studied topic-generated readings from Spanish America and/or Spain. Readings considered gender issues, the family, ethnicity, religion, politics, history, or socioeconomic issues in the Hispanic world. 

Business Courses 

ECON 2110: Principles of Microeconomics 

This course introduced me to economic reasoning and its application to the study of the behavior of consumers and business firms. We discussed topics including competition, monopoly, international trade, and the impact of selected public policies. 

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FIN 2010: Introduction to Personal Finance 

This course provides an introductory overview of personal finance with an emphasis on budgeting; consumer credit, including student loans, credit cards, and basic bank loans; personal bank services; and purchasing automobile and property insurance. 

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MATH 1020: Business Calculus I 

This course took an intuitive approach to the concepts and applications of calculus. Topics included functions and graphing, differentiation, and integration. Applications from social, biological, and management sciences were also presented. 

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ECON 2120: Principles of Macroeconomics 

This course is a continuation of ECON 2110 in which fundamental economic principles are applied to the study of aggregate economic performance. Topics included the forces determining the rates of inflation, unemployment, and economic growth, with particular emphasis on the influence of fiscal and monetary policies through financial markets. 

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MATH 2070: Business Calculus II 

This course provides an introduction to the calculus of several variables, differential calculus and optimization of several variables, multiple integrals. Topics from the management sciences were used to illustrate the above concepts. 

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ECON 3100: International Econ 

This course studied the process of international commerce. We covered the basic theory of trade and exchange rates, institutional and legal environment, and current policy issues.

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MGT 2010: Principles of Management 

This course studied management’s role as a factor of economic production. We went into depth on the functions of management, principles of organization, and behavior in organizations.

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MKT 3010: Principles of Marketing 

This course studied the principles and concepts involved in planning, pricing, promoting, and distributing of goods and services.

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STAT 3090: Introductory Business Stats 

This course introduced probability and statistics to business students. We covered topics such as descriptive statistics, probability, expectations, binomial, normal, sampling distributions, one and two sample estimation and testing. 

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ACCT 2010: Financial Accounting Concepts 

This course introduced me to accounting principles with an emphasis on the use of financial data and analysis of financial statements. 

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MKT 3020: Consumer Behavior 

This course provided an examination of selected individual and group behavioral science concepts and their application to the understanding of consumer decision making.

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MKT 4270: International Marketing 

This course involved an in depth study of marketing from the international point of view. There was an emphasis on the necessary modification of marketing thinking and practice for foreign markets due to individual environmental differences.

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ENGL 3040: Business Writing 

This course provided an introduction to audience, context, purpose, and writing strategies for texts common in professional business settings: memoranda, letters, reports, and proposals. Includes individual and team projects.

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FIN 3060: Corporation Finance 

This course introduced students to financial management of non-financial firms. The course included such topics as analysis of financial statements, financial forecasting, capital budgeting, working capital management, and long-term financing decisions.

 

LAW 3220: Legal Environment of Business 

This course examined both state and national regulation of business. Attention was given to the constitution and limitations of power, specific areas in which governments have acted, and the regulations that have been imposed in these areas.

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MGT 4230: International Business Management 

Survey of theoretical and institutional complexities of international business operations. Topics include exporting, importing, foreign investment, multinational corporations, and international payment systems.

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MGT 3180: Management of Information Systems 

This course introduced information systems concepts and applications in business. Topics included software, hardware, decision support and knowledge based systems, database, information systems design and implementation, and the management of information systems.

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PRTM 3600: Recreation and Amateur Sport Management

This course explored the theoretical foundations and basic skills, methods and techniques necessary for the effective design and delivery of recreational sport programs offered in public, not-for-profit, collegiate, and private agencies and organizations.

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PRTM 4470: Perspectives of International Travel 

Using the United States as a destination, international travel patterns and major attractions were presented in this course. We analyzed factors which restrain foreign travel to the United States and other international destinations.

Additional Coursework 

SOC 4030: Environmental Sociology 

This course provided an in depth study of science, technology, and the environment in relation to human behaviors and values with an emphasis on the U.S. and globalized world contexts. We surveyed the sociology of environment, science, and technology. We also studied a selected analysis of related controversies and policy considerations.

 

POSC 1020: Intro Intl Relations 

This course provided an overview of both theory and practice in contemporary global politics. Topics included the structure of and primary actors in the international system; reasons conflict occurs; and roles of international institutions, law, and policy. 

 

ENGL 1030: Composition and Rhetoric 

In this course we worked on composing correct and effective expository and argumentative essays, including writing documented essays.

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