Coursework

In this section, you will find a description of the most important courses I took during my time at Clemson. As a Language and International Business major, I studied many disciplines, and since I came into college with college credit, I had the flexibility to take many courses that interested me, which also allowed me to complete an Economics minor.

Below, I note which classes I took abroad and which courses were for the Honors College.

Language-Oriented Instructions

SPAN 1020/2010/2020: Elementary and Intermediate Spanish: In the introductory course (1020), the fundamentals of grammar and vocabulary were taught, enough to build a foundation for oral and written proficiency. The intermediate courses (2010/2020) allowed us to improve listening, speaking, reading, and writing, while also systematically reviewing grammar and basic vocabulary.

SPAN 3020: Intermediate Spanish Grammar and Composition: The course focused intensely on reviewing Spanish grammar, verbs, idiomatic expressions, and vocabulary, while also introducing students to syntax and stylistic elements through both structured and creative writing exercises.

SPAN 3050: Intermediate Spanish Conversation and Composition I: The course emphasized practicing spoken Spanish, with a focus on enhancing vocabulary, pronunciation, intonation, and comprehension skills. It also involved written assignments to improve accuracy, along with language laboratory exercises.

SPAN 3160: Spanish for International Business 1: We studied the spoken and written language, protocol, and cultural environment of the Spanish-speaking business world. We focused on business terminology through readings, analysis of commercial texts, and class discussions. We worked on a course-long group project where we created a fictional company in a Spanish-speaking country.

SPAN 3999: Transfer Elective (Advanced Spanish) (Seville): This was an advanced Spanish course that focused on Spanish culture and implemented excursions, such as to local food markets and to watch flamenco dancers.

SPAN 4160 (HONORS): Spanish for International Business II: We studied more complex business vocabulary, cultural concepts, and environment of Hispanic markets. We learned a lot about human resources, international trade, marketing, finance, and economics, especially through readings and current events. I completed an honors contract for this course, which consisted of independent research and a final paper.

Culture and Literature Courses

SPAN 3070: The Hispanic World: Spain (Seville): The course analyzed Spanish culture historically and sociologically while developing strong Spanish writing and speaking skills. Through examining Spain's civilization from pre-history to modern times and reflecting on cultural differences between the U.S. and Seville, students gained insight into the link between customs and historical evolution.

SPAN 3130: Spanish Literature Survey I (Seville): The course explored major Spanish authors from the late 19th century to the present, including Juan Ramón Jiménez, Miguel de Unamuno, Federico García Lorca, and Carmen Laforet, guiding critical reading and analytical writing in Spanish.

SPAN 4070: Spanish Cinema (Seville): The course provided a thorough examination of Spanish cinema, serving as a tool for cultural analysis and understanding identity and nation-building processes, with students engaging in critical analysis of films, studying relevant theories and concepts, and acquiring technical vocabulary for filmmaking theory.

LAIB 4000: Language and International Business Internship (Seville): For this requirement, I completed a 140-hour internship for an international company (Boleo Legal) abroad.

Other Courses

COMM 2500 (HONORS): Public Speaking: Because this in an Honors course, there was additional work focusing on civil discourse, leadership communication, and ethical communication. This course was about practical instruction in public speaking.

FR 1010: Elementary French: This was a multimedia course that combined video, audio, and print to teach the fundamentals of the French language and culture.

MATH 1020/2070: Business Calculus I/II: Topics included functions and graphing, differentiation, and integration. There were applications from social, biological, and management sciences presented. Also, we were introduced to the calculus of several variables, differential calculus and optimization of several variables, and multiple integrals.

PSYC 3400: Lifespan Developmental Psychology: We covered the psychological aspects of human growth and development across the entire lifespan.

PSYC 3520 (HONORS): Social Psychology: We learned about how we think about ourselves and other people, how our attitudes determine our behavior, the means by which powerful social forces shape and influence our behavior, the causes and possible means of reducing racism and prejudice, the development and deterioration of interpersonal relationships, and the understanding of altruism, aggression, and conflict. We read and wrote papers on Half the Sky and Just Mercy and also wrote a research paper on a topic of our choice.

STAT 3090: Introductory Business Statistics: This was an introductory probability and statistics course meant for business students. Topics included descriptive statistics, probability, expectations, binomial, normal, sampling distributions, one and two sample estimation and testing.

Business Courses

ACCT 2010 (HONORS): Financial Accounting Concepts: This course served as an introduction to accounting principle, emphasizing the use of financial data and analysis of financial statements.

ENGL 3040: Business Writing: This course focuses on writing strategies for varied rhetorical situations in common business forms, such as memoranda, letters, reports, and proposals.

FIN 3110: Financial Management I: Provided in-depth exposure to the theory and practice of corporate financial management and to demonstrate how financial management techniques are applied in decision making.

MGT 2010 (HONORS): Principles of Management: This course covered the foundations of the management process: planning, organizing, leading and controlling, as well as current issues affecting managers and their environment such as: globalization, diversity, ethics, innovation, information technology and social responsibility.

MGT 4230: International Management: This was a survey course that addressed a wide range of considerations in conducting international business. The fundamental purpose of this course was to learn the concepts and practices
associated with the management of an organization with multinational operations.

MKT 3010: Principles of Marketing: This course covered the principles and concepts involved in planning, pricing, promoting, and distributing of goods and services.

MKT 3020: Consumer Behavior: In this class, we covered many topics on consumer behavior, including social and cultural influences, group and individual influences, perception, learning, memory, and motivation; self-concepts and lifestyles, and the five-step consumer decision making process.

MKT 4270: International Marketing: The course provided an overview of international marketing. It emphasized the necessary modification of marketing thinking and practice for foreign markets due to individual environmental differences.

Economics Minor Courses

ECON 2110 (HONORS): Principles of Microeconomics: This course introduces basic concepts from microeconomics, the branch of economics that examines decision making by individuals, firms, and governments. Thinking, not memorizing, was emphasized.

ECON 2120 (HONORS): Principles of Macroeconomics: This course delved into fundamental economic principles, focusing on aggregate economic performance. It covered income, employment, interest rates, and the price level, and was divided into studying long-run growth and inflation, short-run economic fluctuations and monetary policy, and topics like unemployment, financial crises, taxation, fiscal policy, and international trade, with an emphasis on understanding macroeconomic theory and its application to economic policy.

ECON 3100: International Economics: We studied how the scarcity of resources influences international trade and the well-being of individuals across countries, learned how government policies and non-governmental organizations can influence the pattern of trade, and understood the factors that influence exchange rates and how exchange rates influence the volume of trade.

ECON 3140: Intermediate Microeconomics: The objective of this class was to develop in students a solid understanding of economic theory, sufficient to analyze the effect of real-world policies and events.

ECON 3150: Intermediate Macroeconomics: Throughout the course, we will learned how macroeconomists measure the phenomena they study, construct theories to explain them, and how those theories are tested and used to formulate economic policies.

ECON 4230: Economics of Health: This course provided an introduction to the field of health economics. This class taught us to better understand microeconomic principles and how they apply to the field of health. We learned to carefully read and interpret empirical findings in
the health economics literature. Topics will included markets for health and health care, health insurance markets, physicians markets, health policy in the U.S. and abroad, as well as public health topics.

ECON 4980: Environmental Law and Economics: This course provided an introduction to environmental law and
economics. We examined the nature of environmental conflicts and the various
mechanisms for resolving those conflicts. Through reading, writing, and discussion,
we evaluated a variety of environmental policies from the distinct and often
conflicting perspectives of ethics, efficacy, and efficiency.

CATHERINE FORBES

Language and International Business
Clemson University

COURSEWORK

Language-Oriented Instructions

SPAN 3020: Intermediate Spanish Grammar and Composition: The course focused intensely on reviewing Spanish grammar, verbs, idiomatic expressions, and vocabulary, while also introducing students to syntax and stylistic elements through both structured and creative writing exercises.

SPAN 3999: Transfer Elective (Advanced Spanish) (Seville): This was an advanced Spanish course that focused on Spanish culture and implemented excursions, such as to local food markets and to watch flamenco dancers.

Culture and Literature Courses

SPAN 3130: Spanish Literature Survey I (Seville): The course explored major Spanish authors from the late 19th century to the present, including Juan Ramón Jiménez, Miguel de Unamuno, Federico García Lorca, and Carmen Laforet, guiding critical reading and analytical writing in Spanish.

LAIB 4000: Language and International Business Internship (Seville): For this requirement, I completed a 140-hour internship for an international company (Boleo Legal) abroad.

Other Courses

COMM 2500 (HONORS): Public Speaking: Because this in an Honors course, there was additional work focusing on civil discourse, leadership communication, and ethical communication. This course was about practical instruction in public speaking.

FR 1010: Elementary French: This was a multimedia course that combined video, audio, and print to teach the fundamentals of the French language and culture.

PSYC 3400: Lifespan Developmental Psychology: We covered the psychological aspects of human growth and development across the entire lifespan.

STAT 3090: Introductory Business Statistics: This was an introductory probability and statistics course meant for business students. Topics included descriptive statistics, probability, expectations, binomial, normal, sampling distributions, one and two sample estimation and testing.

Business Courses

ACCT 2010 (HONORS): Financial Accounting Concepts: This course served as an introduction to accounting principle, emphasizing the use of financial data and analysis of financial statements.

ENGL 3040: Business Writing: This course focuses on writing strategies for varied rhetorical situations in common business forms, such as memoranda, letters, reports, and proposals.

FIN 3110: Financial Management I: Provided in-depth exposure to the theory and practice of corporate financial management and to demonstrate how financial management techniques are applied in decision making.

MKT 3010: Principles of Marketing: This course covered the principles and concepts involved in planning, pricing, promoting, and distributing of goods and services.

MKT 3020: Consumer Behavior: In this class, we covered many topics on consumer behavior, including social and cultural influences, group and individual influences, perception, learning, memory, and motivation; self-concepts and lifestyles, and the five-step consumer decision making process.

MKT 4270: International Marketing: The course provided an overview of international marketing. It emphasized the necessary modification of marketing thinking and practice for foreign markets due to individual environmental differences.

Economics Minor Courses

ECON 2110 (HONORS): Principles of Microeconomics: This course introduces basic concepts from microeconomics, the branch of economics that examines decision making by individuals, firms, and governments. Thinking, not memorizing, was emphasized.

ECON 3140: Intermediate Microeconomics: The objective of this class was to develop in students a solid understanding of economic theory, sufficient to analyze the effect of real-world policies and events.

ECON 3150: Intermediate Macroeconomics: Throughout the course, we will learned how macroeconomists measure the phenomena they study, construct theories to explain them, and how those theories are tested and used to formulate economic policies.

COURSEWORK

Language-Oriented Instructions

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SPAN 3020: Intermediate Spanish Grammar and Composition: The course focused intensely on reviewing Spanish grammar, verbs, idiomatic expressions, and vocabulary, while also introducing students to syntax and stylistic elements through both structured and creative writing exercises.

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SPAN 3999: Transfer Elective (Advanced Spanish) (Seville): This was an advanced Spanish course that focused on Spanish culture and implemented excursions, such as to local food markets and to watch flamenco dancers.

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Culture and Literature Courses

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SPAN 3130: Spanish Literature Survey I (Seville): The course explored major Spanish authors from the late 19th century to the present, including Juan Ramón Jiménez, Miguel de Unamuno, Federico García Lorca, and Carmen Laforet, guiding critical reading and analytical writing in Spanish.

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LAIB 4000: Language and International Business Internship (Seville): For this requirement, I completed a 140-hour internship for an international company (Boleo Legal) abroad.

Other Courses

COMM 2500 (HONORS): Public Speaking: Because this in an Honors course, there was additional work focusing on civil discourse, leadership communication, and ethical communication. This course was about practical instruction in public speaking.

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FR 1010: Elementary French: This was a multimedia course that combined video, audio, and print to teach the fundamentals of the French language and culture.

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PSYC 3400: Lifespan Developmental Psychology: We covered the psychological aspects of human growth and development across the entire lifespan.

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STAT 3090: Introductory Business Statistics: This was an introductory probability and statistics course meant for business students. Topics included descriptive statistics, probability, expectations, binomial, normal, sampling distributions, one and two sample estimation and testing.

Business Courses

ACCT 2010 (HONORS): Financial Accounting Concepts: This course served as an introduction to accounting principle, emphasizing the use of financial data and analysis of financial statements.

​

ENGL 3040: Business Writing: This course focuses on writing strategies for varied rhetorical situations in common business forms, such as memoranda, letters, reports, and proposals.

​​

FIN 3110: Financial Management I: Provided in-depth exposure to the theory and practice of corporate financial management and to demonstrate how financial management techniques are applied in decision making.

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MKT 3010: Principles of Marketing: This course covered the principles and concepts involved in planning, pricing, promoting, and distributing of goods and services.

​​

MKT 3020: Consumer Behavior: In this class, we covered many topics on consumer behavior, including social and cultural influences, group and individual influences, perception, learning, memory, and motivation; self-concepts and lifestyles, and the five-step consumer decision making process.

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MKT 4270: International Marketing: The course provided an overview of international marketing. It emphasized the necessary modification of marketing thinking and practice for foreign markets due to individual environmental differences.

Economics Minor Courses

ECON 2110 (HONORS): Principles of Microeconomics: This course introduces basic concepts from microeconomics, the branch of economics that examines decision making by individuals, firms, and governments. Thinking, not memorizing, was emphasized.

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ECON 3140: Intermediate Microeconomics: The objective of this class was to develop in students a solid understanding of economic theory, sufficient to analyze the effect of real-world policies and events.

​​

ECON 3150: Intermediate Macroeconomics: Throughout the course, we will learned how macroeconomists measure the phenomena they study, construct theories to explain them, and how those theories are tested and used to formulate economic policies.

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