ESEI Business School
COURSE SELECTION
Courses are offered at the ESEI Business School.
SUNY Students are integrated with Spanish and international students from around the world.
Courses are taught in English.
- Business, Law & Diplomacy
- Spanish Language & Culture Selecting Courses:
- Step 1: Download the Course Offerings & Schedule (pdf file).
- Step 2: Select courses that are of interest to you. Make sure to select at least 3 alternates. For example, if you plan to take 5 courses during the semester, you should select at least 8 courses.
- Step 3: Click on the course titles (below) to download syllabi.
- Step 4: Consult with the study abroad and/or academic advisor at your university about course approval, credit transfer and program transcripts.
COURSES: SPANISH BUSINESS, LAW & DIPLOMACY 1.1 Developing Skills for Managers
The course focuses on managing and coordinating integrated communications, with an emphasis on the written aspects of managerial skills
3 credits. Prerequisites: none
1.2 Principles of Management
The aim of the course is to introduce and develop some of the principles of management within a modern organizational environment. To accomplish this, students will examine important issues relevant to the manager today, including the motivation and management of people, organizational structure and design, organizational goal setting, leadership and managing change and innovation.
3 credits. Prerequisites: none
- Syllabus (Fall)
- Syllabus (Spring) - contact KEI
1.3 Introduction to Information Systems
This course will address basic concepts related to computers, the computer as a business management tool, and the Microsoft Office suite.
3 credits. Prerequisites: none
- Syllabus (Fall)
- Syllabus (Spring) - contact KEI
1.4 Principles of Marketing
This course provides students with an introduction to the role of marketing and the principles and problems involved in developing marketing concepts. Students will learn about many of the trends affecting the marketing and function and will analyze the role the consumer plays in marketing.
3 credits. Prerequisites: none
- Syllabus (Fall)
- Syllabus (Spring) - contact KEI
1.5 Introduction to Economics
The aim of the course is to provide a considered, comprehensive and accessible introduction to economics for courses taken by business students. It describes and analyses the basic principles of economics and applies these principles to the rapidly changing external business environment.
3 credits. Prerequisites: none
1.6 Introduction to Finance
This course is an introduction into all financial aspects that a business manager operating in an international environment has to deal with. The first semester will focus on understanding basic concepts which will be studied in a more detailed way in the second semester. Business cases and exercises will be part of the lectures.
3 credits. Prerequisites: none
1.7 Business Law
An introduction to contract and tort law under the English legal system.
3 credits. Prerequisites: none
- Syllabus (Fall)
- Syllabus (Spring) - contact KEI
1.8 Calculus for Business (Fall only)
The course starts by refreshing basic concepts: long division, ratios, fractions, decimals, percentages. Then it covers methods for solving first and second degree equations, and finishes with more complex systems and the appropriate methods for solving them. Calculators will not be used, in order to help you review old concepts, learn new ones and apply logic to every-day problems, rather than focusing on using a machine to solve problems.
3 credits. Prerequisites: none
1.9 Quantitative Methods for Analysis (Fall only)
The course covers the basic quantitative methods and formulas used in measuring business performances from progressions, Present and Future values using compounding interest and continually compounding. Ordinary Annuities, Amortization of Debt, Equity and Mortgage and Sinking Funds, Bond pricing and Break-Even Analysis.
3 credits. Prerequisites: none
1.10 Introduction to Accounting (Fall only)
An introduction to contract and tort law under the English legal system.
3 credits. Prerequisites: none
2.1 Business Information Systems
Information systems as the basis for Decision Support Systems. Technology components of information systems.
3 credits. Prerequisites: none
2.2 Cross-Cultural Management *
The objective of this course is to increase the awareness of the impact of national cultures on business and to provide the students with theoretical and practical tools in order to improve their productivity when working and doing business with people from other cultures.
3 credits. Prerequisites: none
2.3 Organizational Behavior*
The field of organizational behavior is concerned with the study of what people do in an organization and how that behavior affects the performance of the organization. In this course we will take a careful look at the personal system as an important modifier of human needs. With this course you will get the appropriate tools to be assessing, designing, delivering and evaluating management systems for the future.
3 credits. Prerequisites: none
2.4 Strategic Management
The objective of this course is to give the participants an understanding of the nature of strategic management, by providing a comprehensive overview of pertinent issues, both theoretical and practical, on the topic. The course aims to combine broad theoretical background of strategic management with practical implications to the way modern companies are run. An important objective of the course is to provide students with tangible strategic analysis, design and implementation skills that they can readily put into practice. In addition to the design/planning perspective the course will add several other perspectives such as change management, learning and knowledge, innovation and entrepreneurship, as well as strategic leadership.
3 credits. Prerequisites: none
2.5 Marketing Management
This section of the course will introduce the main elements of the marketing mix and look at the marketing concept from an ethical standpoint. Areas such as cause-related and green marketing will be examined.
3 credits. Prerequisites: none
2.6 Management Skills (Management in Action)
The course designed to introduce managerial concepts and applications in a real life setting and overview the core competencies required by today´s global businesses.
3 credits. Prerequisites: none
2.7 Company Law
An introduction to company law under English law. How companies are regulated by legislation and the common law. An examination of intellectual property law and its development, including practical illustrations. An introduction to e-commerce, e-crome and electronic liability. An examination of the law of agency and the liability in this area.
3 credits. Prerequisites: none
2.8 Corporate Finance I
An introduction to the concepts and techniques of corporate finance, designed to prepare students for the financial realities of working in a corporate environment. The course is the first part of the Corporate Finance module. 3 credits. Prerequisites: none
3.1 Project Management
The aim of this course is to learn how to develop business web sites by using FrontPage, along with HTML, XML, CSS, SQL data base management, and other e-business software. The course is hands on, with students developing their own personal web site with multiple, hypothetical business applications, and a group site which simulates a successful e-business site.
3 credits. Prerequisites: approval by ESEI faculty
3.2 International Marketing *
This section of the course will introduce the main elements of strategic marketing management. As part of this course students will undertake a final project in which they will develop a strategic marketing plan for an international brand.
3 credits. Prerequisites: none
3.3 Managerial Finance
Valuation methods for financial derivatives is one of the main component of the skills required for a financial job in a multinational corporation. Topics covered include: Transaction exposures, Currency Spots and forwards hedge, Option Market hedge, Operational techniques and how corporations manage its currency exposures, Money market, Forward Rate agreement and Debt for Equity Swaps.
3 credits. Prerequisites: none
3.4 Personnel Management
An examination of the acquisition of information for marketing management decision making, including the formulation of research problems, research design, data sources and collection methods, sampling design, data analysis and presentation of results.
3 credits. Prerequisites: approval by ESEI faculty
3.5 Corporate Finance II
An introduction to the concepts and techniques of corporate finance, designed to prepare students for the financial realities of working in a corporate environment. The course is the first part of the Corporate Finance II module.
3 credits. Prerequisites: approval by ESEI faculty
3.6 International Economics
This course studies the forces underpinning international trade and finance. It examines the costs and benefits of trade, the trade and exchange rate policy options facing government, and the role of international organizations in trade and financial governance. It is essentially a course on globalization: the growing integration of world economies brought about by trade and financial liberalization.
3 credits. Prerequisites: approval by ESEI faculty
3.7 Modern Political Issues & Negotiation
Part one of the course provides the negotiating skills essential not only to business, but to everyday life. The second part of the course sets out to provide the base for the second semester by examining the growth of modern political ideas.
3 credits. Prerequisites: approval by ESEI faculty
- Syllabus (Fall) - contact KEI
- Syllabus (Spring) - contact KEI
3.8 Investment Analysis & Strategy
Fixed income market, zero coupon bond, measuring the yield, volatility macaulay duration, treasury securities, forward rate agreement, options on interest rates, derivatives, futures market, stock index and stock option strategies are fully analyzed.
3 credits. Prerequisites: approval by ESEI faculty
3.9 Small Business Management & Entrepreneurship
The objectives of the course are to develop necessary knowledge, skills and attitude in order to lead the creation of a great enterprise, to foster creativity and power of mind to make meaning and to express it through his/her own entrepreneurial idea, and to integrate the knowledge of other business subjects focusing in establishing and running an entrepreneurial idea, by itself or within a company.
3 credits. Prerequisites: approval by ESEI faculty
3.10 Financial Strategy *
Valuation analysis for financial securities, restructuring a company when it is threatened by a potential take-over and a valuation of a company are key requirements to perform a financial job in an international corporation.
3 credits. Prerequisites: approval by ESEI faculty
3.11 International Current Affairs *
This is a multidisciplinary course that seeks to analyze, in-depth and from the broadest number of perspectives, some of the main political, economic, cultural and social issues affecting the world today. The analysis will always be forward looking, seeking to question established views and assumptions, and drawing conclusions on likely future scenarios. The course will never lose sight of the fact that this is a business class: as such, students must always identify the business risks and opportunities in their analysis. Class will be discussion-based and demand a high level of participation.
3 credits. Prerequisites: none
3.12 International Financial Management
Not available at this time. 3 credits. Prerequisites: none
- Syllabus (Fall) - contact KEI
- Syllabus (Spring) - Contact KEI
3.13 Strategic Management
3 credits. Prerequisites: none
COURSES: SPANISH LANGUAGE & CULTURE 1.01 Spanish Language I (Spanish for Beginners) *
The goal of this course is to enable students to acquire a basic mastery of the following four language skills: listening, speaking, reading, and writing. The course will emphasize practice of grammar and communication skills in the classroom.
3 credits. Prerequisites: none
1.02 Spanish Art
General view of the Spanish History of Art from its origins to the present day, giving preference to those artistic styles with which students may have more contact: Asturian Pre-Romanesque, Gothic, Cubism, Surrealism. Similarly, greater attention is paid to the works of the Spanish grand masters: Velázquez, Goya, Picasso, Dalí, Miró. The theory classes will be complemented by visits to the Museums and Monuments in the area.
3 credits. Prerequisites: none
- Contact KEI for syllabus
2.01 Spanish Language II (Intermediate) *
The aim of this course is for students to be able to meet real communication needs: understand the oral messages of their environment (listening comprehension); pronounce and intone adequately (oral production); identify the written representation of sounds, accentuation and intonation (reading comprehension) and write in Spanish with the greatest orthographic correction possible (written production). Students will acquire the different skills through a sequencing of activities ranging from the study of phonemes to the reflection on intonation.
3 credits. Prerequisites: Beginning Spanish
- Contact KEI for syllabus
2.02 Spanish Society & Culture (Required) *
Description of the main aspects of Spanish life and culture from an intercultural perspective in the search for the knowledge of the Spanish and European reality of the 21st century as well as breaking down the frequent clichés regarding this. The course is conceived as an open structure adapted to the students´ needs for integration in the Catalonian academic and social life. Subjects include the family, education, gastronomy, Spanish university life, political structure, music, cinema, geography, etc.
3 credits. Prerequisites: none
2.03 History of Spain *
This subject offers a general overview of the economic, social, political and cultural events that make up our history, paying special attention to the most significant stages. The Fall semester and summer session course makes a very general study of the great events in the History of Spain: the invasion period, the Reconquest, the Modern Era, the War of Independence, the Courts of Cádiz, the Liberal Monarchy, the First and Second Republic, the Civil war, the Franco period and Democratic Spain. The Spring semester course starts with the formation of the Spanish Empire in the Sixteenth Century and ends at the present time, making an in-depth study of some of the subjects touched upon in the Autumn course and analyzing many other new ones, emphasizing in particular, all that concerning the Civil War, the Franco period and Spanish current affairs.
3 credits. Prerequisites: none
- Contact KEI for syllabus
2.04 Spanish Literature *
Approach to Spanish Literature in translation based on the reading and commentary of a selection of texts that enable us to complete a small overview of the history of literature, in particular, of the 20th century and of present-day literary production. The course is organized in subject modules that try to establish relations and links between different authors, trends and periods, in such a way that through this diversity the student can complete a broad outline of Spanish literary history. In order to facilitate the understanding of the works, the program aims for an introduction to the readings from the knowledge of their cultural, aesthetic, social and political context. For the review of present-day literature to be satisfactory, we include some modules devoted to certain characters and classic authors whose influence is present in present-day culture and art.
3 credits. Prerequisites: none
- Contact KEI for syllabus
3.01 Spanish Language III (Advanced)
The aim of this course is for students to be able to meet real communication needs: understand the oral messages of their environment (listening comprehension); pronounce and intone adequately (oral production); identify the written representation of sounds, accentuation and intonation (reading comprehension) and write in Spanish with the greatest orthographic correction possible (written production). Students will acquire the different skills through a sequencing of activities ranging from the study of phonemes to the reflection on intonation.
3 credits. Prerequisites: Intermediate Spanish
- Contact KEI for syllabus
3.02 Introduction to Spanish-English Translation
The main aim of this course is to help English-speaking students to reinforce and strengthen their knowledge of Spanish grammar and vocabulary from a comparative study of the formal characteristics of both languages, carried out in practice by the translation of English texts into Spanish. Class time will therefore be devoted to the practical task of debating and commenting on the different Spanish versions of an English text that will be handed out in advance, emphasizing the restrictions imposed by the grammatical differences between one language and the other when trying to obtain a good translation, and also devoting a substantial amount of time to discussing questions of vocabulary and register. In this sense, the selection of texts has fundamentally been made taking into account their suitability for the grammatical subjects to be dealt with, but also with a view to illustrating a wide variety of styles (from journalistic and literary to colloquial styles) and also trying to reflect the two linguistic variants of English: British English and American English.
3 credits. Prerequisites: intermediate Spanish
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3.03 Texts Commentary
Analysis and interpretation of texts selected from Spanish and Latin American literature. The subject develops the following units: 1. Characteristics of literary and non literary communication; 2. Stories; 3. Theatre; and 4. Poetry.
3 credits. Prerequisites: intermediate Spanish
- Contact KEI for syllabus