Coursework

On this page, there are descriptions of the courses I took during my time at Clemson and during my study abroad in Japan. They are split into 5 categories, Language-Oriented, Culture and Literature, Business, other major required, and other courses. If you would like to see samples of my coursework click the button below

Samples

Language-Oriented Courses

Japn 1010 Elementary Japanese I

This course was the very beginning of my Japanese learning. This introduced me to the language and taught me all the fundamental basics I needed to get my journey started in learning Japanese. A lot of English was used during teaching still.

Japn 1020 Elementary Japanese II

This course was the continuation of the beginning class, so this continued to build fundamentals and basics of the language. A lot of English was used during teaching still.

Japn 2010 Intermediate Japanese

This course is the start of really diving deep into Japanese learning. This course covers more than just the basics and starts to get into the details of grammar and vocabulary, and more difficult kanji. I would say maybe around 50/50 english and Japanese was used during teaching.

Japn 2020 Intermediate Japanese II (Meiji Gakuin University)

This course was taken when I was studying abroad, so it was not necessarily the continuation from my last course, but was similar in building on more grammar, vocabular, and kanji. Along with practicing speaking and writing more heavily. This course was taught in about 80% Japanese/20% English.

Japn 3030 Conversation and Comp (Meiji Gakuin University)

This course was taken abroad and was the start of more advanced Japanese courses. This still continued to build on grammar, vocab, and kanji. But the more complex ones. There were also 2 classes that went along with this one focusing solely on writing and reading, while the other was listening and speaking. The course was taught fully in Japanese.

Japn 3050 Japanese Conversation and Comp II (Meiji Gakuin University)

This course was a continuation of the last course. Still continued the building of everything. This class also had 2 classes that went along with this one. One was a big focus on writing and reading, where we had to write stories and summaries of books. The other was to focus on listening and speaking, where we had to give multiple presentations on topics. The course was taught fully in Japanese.

Japn 3160 Japanese for International Business I

This was a course focused on learning keigo and Japanese business vocabulary. It taught how business was conducted in Japan and the cultural differences between business in America and Japan. Such as differences in resumes and doing interviews, we had to create and do mock interviews in Japanese. This course was taught in 80% Japanese/20% English.

Japn 4160 Japanese for International Business II

This was a continuation from the last Japanese course. This further our learning of keigo and Japanese business vocabulary. This course went through many stories of business in Japan, where we learned strategies that Japan used while learning new grammar and vocabulary. This also taught more cultural differences in business in America and Japan. In this course we had to do presentation on different Japanese business and describe their marketing strategies.

Culture and Literature Courses

Japn 4010 Japanese Lit in Translation (Meiji Gakuin University)

I took this course while abroad, and this course heavily focused on folk lore in Japan. We went through many different stories from Ancient Japan, such as the story of Genji, monokes, ghost, spirits and many different monsters. It was a very informative course on old stories in Japan. We also looked at some in the present, such as Godzilla and the differences between Godzilla in America and Japan.

Japn 4040 Cultural Studies in Japan (Meiji Gakuin University)

This course was taken abroad. This course focused on teaching of Pop culture in Japan. It taught all of the popular cultural activities that are popular in Japan in the present day. The most notable project we had in this class was getting separated into groups and having to present a detailed description of the history of each pop culture activity we learn from the class. We had to physically go somewhere with our group and take pictures that resembled our topic.

Japn 4170 Japanese Culture and Society (Meiji Gakuin University)

This course was taken abroad. This course focused on interaction between Japanese students and foreign students. Each class you were partnered up with a Japanese student, as we watched different Japanese media, such as anime, movies, and comedy. Then we answered questions while watching these media based on the culture and society of Japan, together with your Japanese partner. I think one of the best parts of this course was being partnered with a Japanese student as I learned many cultural differences between America and Japan just from talking with them during the course. This course was fully in Japanese.

Japn 4060 Intro to Japanese Literature

I am currently enrolled on this course. This course focuses in the first half on translating Japanese readings into English. We read Japanese stories and translate them into English together in class. Then in the second half of the semester we will independently work on our own translation project. This course is in Japanese and English as we are translating Japanese readings.

Business Courses

Acct 2010 Financial Accounting Concepts

This was my only accounting course that I took at my time at Clemson. This was an introductory course in accounting that taught the basic concepts of financial accounting. Such as balance sheets, debits, credits, ledgers and many more. This was a fully asynchronous class.

Econ 2110 Principles of Microeconomics

This was an introduction course for microeconomics that taught basic concepts. We learn about economic concepts such as supply, demand, opportunity costs, scarcity, and many more. There were multiple equations and graphs that we had to use and be able to read. This was one of the first business courses I took so it was the start of my business learning journey.

Econ 2120 Principles of Macroeconomics

This is very similar to the course above based on Macroeconomics and teaching concepts based on it. We learned about the bigger scale economic terms as Micro focuses more on smaller and independent concepts. We learned about GDP, Unemployment, Inflation, and many more terms similar to these.

Econ 3140 Intermediate Microeconomics

I am currently enrolled on this course. This is a continuation from principles of Microeconomics. So, this course is going to further my understanding of microeconomic terms. So far, we have gone into more detail on supply and demand curves, and elasticity.

Econ 3100 International Economics

This course focused on learning about economic terms and how they work in an international setting. We talked frequently about many different countries and the organizations that help with economics internationally. The project I remember most was having to do a presentation on an international economic problem and explain the problem along with potential solutions supported by academic research.

Econ 3020 Money and Banking

I am currently enrolled on this course. This course focuses on economic terms, but within the banking and money. Such as taxes, loans, interest rates, and things similar to these. I am expecting to better my understanding of how money functions, especially within banks and how banks play a role in economics.

Mgt 2180 Management Pc Applications

This course was fully asynchronous. This course focused solely on Excel and learning the functions of how to use Excel. This course had a big impact on me as this taught me the fundamentals of using Excel which I eventually had to use daily for my internship.

Mgt 2010 Principles of Management

This course was fully asynchronous. This was an introductory course in Management that helped build the fundamental terms and concepts of management. Such as the 5 basic management principles planning, organizing, staffing, leading and controlling.

Mgt 3030 Global business

This course was focused on building out management concepts but in an international and global context. We talked about many countries and how they ran businesses and how to run businesses internationally. We also learned about how to enter different country markets. There was a huge group project where you had to pick a company and a country where the company was not already located and provide academic reasoning on if the company should invest and enter that country’s market.

MKT 3010 Principles of Marketing

This was my first course in Marketing and was an introduction to Marketing. This built our fundamental basic terms in marketing. We learned terms and concepts such as the 4 Ps, brand awareness, market research, B2B, C2B, and similar terms and concepts to these.

Mkt 4270 International Marketing

This course was built upon the terms and concepts that I learned in principles of marketing but also focused on the international perspective. Looking at how different countries do marketing, and their different marketing strategies. The project we had to do on this course is what I remember the most. We had to write a marketing research plan on whether a company should enter a country or not. Providing academic research to back our information.

MKT 3020 Consumer behavior

This course builds more terms and concepts in marketing but focuses more on the consumer and how their behavior affects their decision making. We talked about terms and concepts such as generations and thought processes when buying items. This class felt like a combination of psychology and marketing.

PCID 3040 Business Communication and Info Design

This course was fully asynchronous. This course focused on improving our writing skills when it comes to business communication. Such as emails, letters, resumes, and research papers. We often had to do peer reviews on our fellow classmates, which also helped us learn how to read others and point out the mistakes and give advice.

Other Major Required Courses

PRTM 3010 Recreation and Society

I am currently enrolled on this course. So far on this course we have talked about how people enjoy their free time, and we have also talked about how different societies enjoy their free time. We talked about terms such as leisure, recreation, and play. We currently have an assignment to track our daily lives and everything we do for 2 weeks then to explain and analyze what we are doing with our time throughout the day.

ANTH 2010 Introduction to Anthropology

I am currently enrolled on this course. This course is about the study of humans. We will learn about terms and concepts from the 4 branches of anthropology. These are cultural, linguistics, archaeology, and biology. We have currently learned basic information about cultural and linguistic anthropology.

HIST 1240 Environmental History Survey

This course built the fundamentals of environmental problems and discoveries that happened throughout the history of mainly America. We started in the past and worked our way to the present, talking about the different environmental issues and problems that were happening. Also pointing out famous people that had a huge impact on these environmental issues and on fixing them.

LAIB 2170 Intro to Lang and International Business

This was an introductory course to my major. Since I swapped into this major, I took it later than normal, but this explains all the tools that you have as a student that can help you during your time here as a LAIB student. It also teaches about the different requirements that you will have before you are able to graduate as there are multiple things that are required, such as internships and studying abroad.

COMM 1500 Intro to Human Communications

This was an introductory course on public speaking. This focused on concepts and strategies to help with public speaking. There was a lab alongside this course, that was the main focus of grading during the semester. In this lab you had to give multiple speeches and presentations to help work on your public speaking abilities.

LAIB 4000 Lang and International Business Intern

I am currently enrolled on this course. This course is made for you to write an essay in your target language about the internship that you did during your time at Clemson. As a LAIB student you have to do an internship with a global/international company then write a paper in the target language. This paper talks about the company, your role during the time you were there, what you learned, and the challenges you faced.

Lang 4990 Language Portfolio

I am currently enrolled on this course. This course is made to help with the creation of your E Portfolio that every LAIB student is required to complete. This is a website that we create about our time here at Clemson and what we have accomplished. This will eventually be used later on in my career after graduation and is something I can show to companies when applying.

Other Courses

CPSC 1010 Computer Science I

This was a course I took in my first semester at Clemson. This was before I swapped my major and when I was a Computer Science major. This course was an introductory course in computer programming, and we mainly worked with C++ during the semester. This course taught me basic C++ programming abilities.

CPSC 1020 Computer Science II

This course was a continuation of the previous programming course I took. We continued to work only with C++, and this helped build my basic fundamentals in programming. This course helped me in becoming able to do basic programming tasks within C++.