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Coursework / Asignaturas
This tab includes descriptions of courses which I have completed throughout my 4-year educational career at Clemson University. You will find that courses are categorized according to the bachelor’s degree they fall under as well as the purpose of the course.
En esta pestaña se encuentran las descripciones de los cursos que he realizado a lo largo de mi trayectoría educacional en cuatro años en la Universidad de Clemson. Verá que se clasifican según la licenciatura a la que corresponde el curso además de la finalidad de cada curso.
Modern Languages (Spanish) / Lenguas modernas (Español)
Language-Oriented Instruction
Intermediate Spanish I (SPAN-2010)
Fully conducted in Spanish. Course included instruction on intermediate grammatical structures, pronunciation, vocabulary and syntax. Reading, writing, listening and conversational skills emphasized. Content of this course focused on broadening students’ understanding of the Spanish-speaking world, particularly in Latin America.
Intermediate Spanish Conversation (SPAN-3050)
Intermediate Spanish II (SPAN-2020)
Fully conducted in Spanish. Building on skillsets learned from Intermediate Spanish I (SPAN-2010), focus continued setting the conditions to express myself more fluidly in Spanish through mediums of speaking and writing. Comprehension additionally tested to learn history, current culture, literature and art of Spanish-speaking countries.
Spanish Composition for Business (SPAN-3060)
Fully conducted in Spanish. Course focused on application of conversing and writing with different forms of register in Spanish. Of particular importance was learning to write with formality and correspondence, as well as present information through presentations in front of an audience. Further developed formal writing skills regarding analyzation of literature and various forms of multi-media.
Comprehensive Writing in Spanish (SPAN-4090)/SPAN-3020
Fully conducted in Spanish. In progress, taken abroad. These two courses are conducted concurrently as one overarching course. Course includes various topics regarding social media, Spanish and American cultural influences, colloquial and grammatical sayings (‘refranes’) and the cultural differences between Spain’s autonomous communities. Oral presentations and written material required weekly during this course.
Fully conducted in Spanish. Course instruction included comprehensive approach to learning verbiage used in a business context. Formal correspondence was a necessary skillset in scenarios resolving business conflicts, as well as a wide vocabulary specific to the business world. This course enabled me to learn and explain rudimentary concepts that related to my economics degree. Concepts explored included: customs, globalization, cultural customs, exports and imports and supply chains among others.
Translation Seminar (SPAN-4190)
Fully conducted in Spanish. Instruction spanning a wide variety of specialized fields of translation of Spanish to English. Course challenged me to learn to adjust register, understand and deliver humorous content, adapt to and understand various linguistical and cultural nuances across several Latin American countries and address professional technical specializations such as legal, medical, culinary and informational texts. Several professional translators from the Upstate came to speak to our class regarding their technical specialty within translation and interpretation services. Capstone project for this course was to assist the Clemson Rural Health Clinic in Walhalla, SC with translating recipes and informative brochures addressing healthy eating for Latino populations lacking English proficiency and who suffered from a wide range of cardiovascular health problems.
Cultural/Literary Courses
The Hispanic World: Latin America (SPAN-3080)
Fully conducted in Spanish. Focus of this course was to develop an understanding of the origins of Latin American history, language, culture, art and literature through discussion and writing. I further developed the ability to write reports with an academic register in Spanish, and I developed the ability to create argumentative essays regarding various subjects such as bilingual schooling in the United States and the morality of Spanish colonization.
Narrative Fiction (SPAN-4060)
International Trade, Film & Literature (SPAN-4050)
Fully conducted in Spanish. A strongly conceptual course, this course helped students develop an understanding of film and literature from an academic perspective. Critical thinking and analysis of various sociopolitical themes from films and literature, this course helped solidify my ability to describe and analyze conceptual ideas in Spanish to an audience in presentation or to the readers of my academic reports. Particular emphasis on films produced in Argentina regarding sociopolitical issues and historical events in Argentina.
Health & Hispanic Community (SPAN-4190)
Fully conducted in Spanish. Further building on analytical and critical-thinking skillsets learned International Trade, Film & Literature (SPAN-4050), this course further challenged me to comprehend and learn prose and ‘refranes’ (‘colloquial sayings’ in English) within more dense and sophisticated texts. Argumentative essays were required to explain and elaborate on underlying meanings of fictional texts regarding real sociopolitical issues in Latin America.
Fully conducted in Spanish. Course focused on Latino health disparities within the United States healthcare system. A majority of this course elaborated on health-specific vocabulary, research and the social determinants of the current-day health of the Latino population. Course included several community-based volunteering opportunities in which students collaborated with the Latino population of South Carolina. Capstone project of this course was a written scientific article of peer-reviewed studies regarding the social determinants of drug abuse within the Latino population in the United States. Click the button below to access said article.
Spanish Culture & Atlantic Spain (SPAN-4350)
Fully conducted in Spanish. In progress, taken abroad. Course focuses on in-depth instruction of the history of the Iberian Peninsula ranging from prehistory to current-day Spain. Also instructed are the geography of Spain, the culture of each of Spain’s autonomous communities and informational panels from professionals regarding the history of Santiago de Compostela in Galicia.
Spanish Women Directors (SPAN-4070)
Fully conducted in Spanish. In progress, taken abroad. Course focuses on topics ranging women’s suffrage, educational reform, Spanish Civil War and Francoist Spain from the perspective of film directed by women. Emphasis on analysis of underlying meanings communicated through analysis of techniques in cinematography.
Economics
Business Foundations (BUS-1010)
Introductory course detailing information regarding a variety of business-oriented disciplines including: economics, finance, accounting, management and study abroad opportunities. Intent is to identify a course of action for student to pursue a degree in one specific discipline of business.
Principles of Microeconomics (ECON-2110)
Introductory look into the realm of microeconomics spanning concepts regarding competitive advantage and specialization, consumer demand behaviors and producer supply behaviors, monopoly and competition, externalities, institutional public policy and game theory. Emphasis on instruction of general microeconomic theory.
Business Calculus I (MATH-1020)
This course’s intent was focused on the application of calculus within a business context. Concepts included functions, graphing, integration and derivatives. Context applied to problems included accounting solutions, microeconomic business decisions and assessing investment project feasibility.
Financial Accounting Concepts (ACCT-2010)
Introductory course with intent of familiarization with accounting principles associated with assessing financial statements and GAAP. Framework based upon introducing the four main financial statements: income statement, balance sheet, statement of cashflows and statement of retained earnings.
Business Calculus II (MATH-2070)
Further development of Business Calculus I, including concepts such as integration, derivatives, functions and graphing but with added complexity of several variables. Intent to further develop prerequisite mathematical skillset for application within economic study, particularly for linear regression models.
Managerial Accounting Concepts (ACCT-2020)
Course focus centered upon the decision-making aspect of accounting in accordance with GAAP. Used knowledge acquired from ACCT-2010 to explore concepts such as: manufacturing costs, cost behavior and measuring cost behavior through activity-based costing, management control systems and master budgets, among others. Intent to prepare for corporate financial decision-making and understanding of financial markets, as well as their relation to economic tradeoffs within investment decisions.
Introductory Business Statistics (STAT-3090)
Introduction to statistical analysis and interpretation with focus on preparation for understanding linear regression models in econometrics as well as understanding research data. Concepts included: probability, normal and binomial sampling distributions, single and double sample estimation, inference within hypothesis testing and determining and distinguishing correlation and causation relationships. Intent was to be a direct prerequisite to econometrics which entails interpretation of quantitative economic datasets.
Intermediate Microeconomics (ECON-3140)
Further development based off concepts learned in ECON-2110, this course introduced a more nuanced and mathematical understanding of perfect competition markets, monopoly cost structure, capital-labor optimization models and application of concepts from Business Calculus I and II to understand first-order conditions.
Introduction to Econometrics (ECON-4050)
The principal course for interpretation of quantitative data within an economic context. Directly applied principles of statistical analysis and explored the evaluation of economic hypotheses to identify correlative versus causative relationships, evaluating variables with collinearity, heteroskedasticity, Boolean expressions and probability distributions through the medium of single and multiple linear regression models. Included a lab in which I became familiarized with the statistical software: Stata.
Intermediate Macroeconomics (ECON-3150)
Course included concepts regarding several methods of calculation of GDP, fiscal and monetary policy within a federal government context, inflation, monopoly, subsidization, game theory of producers (Cournot, Bertrand competition and Nash equilibrium among others) and solving problems regarding these concepts mathematically.
Corporation Finance (FIN-3060)
Course introduced financial decisions made by corporations in evaluating feasibility of investment projects. Primarily assisted as a prerequisite to understanding concepts delineated in Financial Economics (ECON-4980). Course made use of analyzing and interpreting the four basic financial statements to draw conclusions for how corporate financial status affects dividend policy and solving the shareholder maximization condition.
Financial Economics (ECON-4980)
Primarily based on solving issues with real-world case studies based on financial decisions made by companies around the world, this course was a holistic approach to understanding the nuanced world of Wall Street financial analysts. Included concepts from Corporation Finance (FIN-3060), Managerial Accounting Principles (ACCT-2020), and several economic courses. Primary objective was to evaluate investment project decisions using Net Present Value. Concepts covered included: capital structure, cost of capital, multiples evaluation, options, information asymmetry, dividend policy, mergers & acquisitions and bankruptcy among others.
Public Choice (ECON-3600)
Building off all the nuanced and detailed understanding of producer and consumer behavior, this course took a broader approach to evaluating public policy and the decisions each of us make as citizens within a democratic republic. Course focused on rent-seeking, democracy and voting systems, political business cycles and tendencies of presidential candidates to adjust policy based on both voter preference and the economic state of the nation.
International Microeconomics (ECON-4120)
Primarily analyzed economic investment decisions from the perspective of international and domestic firms. Concepts explored included: outsourcing, globalization, firms within a cartel and their tradeoffs regarding deviation and cooperation, international trade policy, the 2008 financial crisis and various case studies.
Economics of Health (ECON-4230)
Course focused on understanding the healthcare system and consumer’s healthcare decisions within the United States from an economic perspective. Topics included: insurance markets, the Grossman Model of Human Capital of Health Demand, determinants of macroeconomic healthcare expenditure within GDP, adverse selection and moral hazard and Arrow’s Impossibility Theorem.
Development of the American Economy (ECON-4270)
Introduced economic theory through case studies regarding events in American history which changed the course of our economy. Topics included indentured servitude, slavery, the American Industrial Revolution, the World Wars, African American migration and the advent of contraceptives among others.
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