Notes regarding credits...
This course consists of 40 hours of instruction. However, students may earn 45 hours by attending supplemental sessions and completing additional coursework. Please check with your home university to find out whether you need 40 or 45 hours to earn course equivalents.
Objective
This course is directed toward students that have a desire to learn general economic language as well as the specific characteristics of Spanish and Latin American economics. This class will also look at the cultural differences between each country and the protocol for conducting business between Latin America and Spain.
Program
1. Spain: The natural infrastructure of the Spanish economy.
Latin America: Argentina
2. Spain: The population
Latin America: Uruguay
3. Spain: The
Latin America: Chile
4. Spain: Fishing
Latin America: Brazil
5. Spain: The industrial sector
Latin America: Peru
6. Spain: Types of societies
Latin America: Colombia
7. Spain: The financial sector
Latin America: Venezuela
8. Spain: Tourism and the environment
Lain America: Central America, Panama
9. Spain: Spanish foreign investment
Latin America: Mexico
10. Spain: Interior and exterior commerce
Latin America: Cuba
Activities
Students will do a series of oral and written exercises pertaining to the proposed themes of the class. There will also be short debates and class discussions revolving around each country.
Bibliography
Felices, A. Cultura y negocios. El español de la economía española y latinoamericana.
Madrid. Edinumen. 2002.
Badet, J. Ingreasar en el mundo professional del siglo XXI. Paris. Nathan. 2002.
Felices, A. Español para el comercio internacional. Términos y expresiones esenciales en
el mundo de los negocios. Madrid. Edinumen, 1998.
Gonzalez, M. Temas de economía española. Valencia. Tirant lo Blanch. 1998.
Print this page