Coursework

My Language and International Business major has given me the opportunity to take a wide variety of classes at Clemson. During the first few semesters, my classes consisted of marketing, economics, management, and Spanish. Towards the end of my degree, I started to take classes that combined those business classes with the Spanish that I have learned. Below, I have listed my most important classes.

Spanish

Business

Other

SPAN 1020: Elementary Spanish

This was my first Spanish course at Clemson. It refreshed my memory of the things I learned in high school and then added a few new things.

SPAN 2010: Intermediate Spanish I

In this class, I started to learn many more conjugations in Spanish as well as vocabulary.

SPAN 2020: Intermediate Spanish II

I learned the remainder of the conjugations for Spanish in this course.

SPAN 3020: Spanish Composition I (Alicante)

I took this class in Spain. I learned so much. We read a novel in Spanish and every test that we had included an essay portion.

SPAN 3040: Intro to Hispanic Literary Forms

This class was full of movies and short stories in Spanish. We would watch/read and then write response essays.

SPAN 3050: Intermediate Spanish Conversation & Composition I

I did a lot of analyzing movies and short stories in this course as well. We did a lot of in-class discussions on how the material we learned related to the story.

SPAN 3070: Spanish Culture & Civilization (Alicante)

This course was done in Spain. It gave me a great understanding of the history of Spain and its civil war. I also learned about the government, culture, geography, and different traditions in Spain. I even wrote a six page paper in Spanish on Picasso.

SPAN 3140: Hispanic Linguistics (Alicante)

I took this course in Spain. It gave me a basic understanding of linguistics. I learned a lot about the different dialects in Spain and how they are affected by linguistics.

SPAN 3160: Spanish for International Trade I

I applied my business skills while using Spanish in this course. A classmate and I created a business model for a hispanic country and presented it in front of the class.

SPAN 4110: Advanced Spanish Conversation and Composition (Alicante)

I took this course in Spain. I wrote a four page paper and presented a PowerPoint in Spanish on what my life would be like if I stayed in Spain for longer.

SPAN 4170: Professional Communication

This was my final Spanish class in Clemson. It was a public speaking class in Spanish. We learned different public speaking techniques, gave speeches, and wrote summaries on Spanish articles.

ACCT 2010: Financial Accounting Concepts
In this class, I learned the basics of accounting. We did a lot of work on Microsoft Excel in this class, and I gained a better understanding of formulas in Excel.

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. A few of the topics covered include competition, monopoly, international trade, and the impact of selected public policies.

MGT 2010: Principles of Management
In this class, I learned the basics of being a manager. I learned the right way to treat employees and customers, different techniques for running a successful business, and how to communicate properly with a team. I also did several group projects in this class.

ECON 2120: Principles of Macroeconomics
This course was a continuation of microeconomics. Macroeconomics looks at economics through a wider scope. Some of the topics in this class were 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.

MKT 3010: Principles of Marketing
In this class, I learned about what marketing is. I learned different techniques that marketers use to get consumers’ attention. We also talked about the different uses of marketing. For example, not all marketers design advertisement. Some collect data on consumers and sell it to companies so they can market to consumers.

ECON 3140: Intermediate Microeconomics
This course was an analytical study of basic concepts of value and distribution under alternative market conditions.

MKT 3020: Consumer Behavior
This was probably my favorite marketing class. We learned about how consumers act and how to use that knowledge to market to them better. This was a very interesting class for me because I enjoyed seeing the ways the marketing strategies were used to market to me every day, like in the grocery store.

ECON 3150: Intermediate Macroeconomics
In this class, we talked about economic problems like inflation and unemployment. My professor also talked a lot about investing and gave us great advice on how to prepare for the future.

MKT 4250: Retail Management
This course was an upper-level management class that built upon things I have already learned. As a group project, we designed a business model, wrote a paper, and presented it to the class.

MKT 4270: International Marketing
In this course, we talked about how marketing is different in different countries. The culture of a country greatly affects the marketing there. We went over examples of businesses that did well overseas and businesses that did poorly and why this happened. I also had a group project in this class which included a marketing model for a business, a paper, and a presentation.

MKT 3210: Sports Marketing
This class was about how marketing works in sports. Some of the topics covered include licensing issues, sponsorships and endorsements, stadium and arena marketing, broadcasting and media considerations, public policy and sports, and unique marketing challenges for sport specific products. My final project was to create a sports team and design everything from the name, uniforms and logo to the stadium and what facilities would be available in the stadium.

MGT 4230: International Management
This course was about how businesses differ between countries and how to operate an international business. Some of the topics were exporting, importing, foreign investment, multinational corporations, and international payment system.

LIT 1270: Introduction to L&IT
This is the first class in my major. It introduced me to Language and International Trade (they changed the last word to Business). The class informed me on what to expect during my college career and what jobs would be possible afterwards.

ENGL 3040: Business Writing
This course taught me how to write proper emails and communicate professionally. We also worked on my resume, and I learned how to write a cover letter.

HIST 3040: Industrialism and the Progressive Era
This course was a study of American society in the period between the 1880s and 1930s. We did a lot of reading in this class. One book that we read was the biography of Mark Twain.

POSC 3020: State and Local Government
This class was an introduction to state and local government in America. We held many class discussions on different situations that could happen in government. We did a paper and a group presentation in this class.

LAIB 4000: Language and International Business Internship
This class required an internship of 140 hours. After this, I had to write an eight-page paper on my internship in Spanish.

AGRB 2020: Agricultural Economics
This was microeconomics for agriculture students. It applied what I learned in microeconomics to what it would be like running a farm.