Superior

Prior to enrolling in courses at this language level, students must have completed or tested out of a minimum of 2 upper-division college-level Spanish courses at their home university in the U.S.

PROGRAM

FIRST PART

THEME 1: Factors of Production
- The natural factor
- The human factor
- Capital

THEME 2: Sectors of the Economy
- Primary sector
- Secondary sector
- Third sector

THEME 3: The Sources of Growth
- Productivity of the job
- Productivity and development

THEME 4: Productivity, Technical Change and Progress
- Incorporated technical change
- Distribution of the fruits of progress

THEME 5: Modern Economic Growth
- Growth and structural change
- Characteristics of modern economic growth
- Productivity growth

THEME 6: Growth and Structural Change
- Development as transition
- Structural change in the allocation of resources
- Typology of countries

THEME 7: Population
- Population and resources
- The dynamics of population
- Demographic growth and economic growth
- Migratory movement
- Active population

THEME 8: Agriculture and Economic Development
- Characteristics of agricultural activity
- Declivity of agriculture
- Agricultural revolution and industrial revolution
- Agriculture in economic development
THEME 9: The Transformation of Agriculture
- Growth in production and productivity
- Agricultural technology
- Agricultural typologies

THEME 10: Energy
- Energetic models
- Energy as a market
- Petroleum and its problems

THEME 11: Industry
- Industrialization and development
- Industry and linkages
- The global aspect of industry

THEME 12: Service Economies
- The expansion of the activities of services
- Classification of services
- Productivity
- The international commerce of services

THEME 13: Economic Development
- Development, growth and economic progress
- Countries and levels of rent
- Indications of development

THEME 14: Underdevelopment
- Underdevelopment and poverty
- Medicine of poverty
- Evolution of underdevelopment
- Structural characteristics
- Underdeveloped regions
- The particular case of Latin America
- Underdeveloped Africa

THEME 15: Economic Inequalities
- Natural resources
- Economic system and political economics
- Human capital

THEME 16: The European Union
- Origin
- The community project
- New extension of the EU

THEME 17: Organisms of Economic Cooperation
- International Monetary Backing
- The World Bank
- The OCDE
- Organization of the UN
- The ONG

THEME 16: International Commercial Relations
- International commerce: recent evolution
- Commercial specialization
- The configuration of the world market
- The direction of the world market
- Multinational companies