High Advanced

Prior to enrolling in courses at this language level, students must have completed or tested out of a minimum of five semesters (or seven quarters) of college-level Spanish at their home university in the U.S.

Offered primarily in March, July and November. This course may be offered during other months if there are 3 or more students who sign up for the course.

Description:

For students with a high advanced level of Spanish, this course will familiarize the foreign student to the Spanish language of the Latin American business world. The students will study language and technical terms in the areas of finance, marketing, production and administration. Each area is reviewed with situations or problems to resolve in order to facilitate the written and oral language development. Topics include: principal theories of administration, human resources, marketing and publicity, negotiation, purchases and sales, importing and exporting.

Contents
1. Principal theories of administration
2. The new global economic order (economic blocks)
3. Business vocabulary
4. Writing and spelling
5. The company
6. Instructions and orders
7. Human resources
8. Marketing and publicity
9. Formal conversation for interviews
10. Negotiations
11. Purchasing and selling
12. Formal conversation for meetings
13. The bank
14. Import and export
15. Taxes
16. Telephone conversations
17. Reservations (hotels, restaurants, airlines, etc.)
18. Receptions for visitors
19. Itinerary planning
20. Reading and analysis of articles
21. Elaboration of documents:
-Formal and commercial letters
-curriculum vitae
-announcements
-Employee requests
-Financial reports
-Fax
-Record of meetings and agenda
-Bills and receipts
-Checks
-Promissory notes
22. The stock exchange
23. Councils
24. Formal language