Latin American Business Environment (5 cr)
Code: SPA4LE203-3009
Basic information of implementation
- Enrollment
- 02.01.2024 - 12.01.2024
- Enrolment for the implementation has ended.
- Timing
- 15.01.2024 - 17.05.2024
- Implementation has ended.
- ECTS Credits
- 5 cr
- Campus
- Pasila Campus
- Teaching languages
- English
- Seats
- 15 - 40
- Degree programmes
- SEBBA Degree Programme in Business Service Solutions and Languages
- Teachers
- Pedro Beltran
- Groups
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LS4CLS4C Sihko 4. työkausi
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LE6BLE6B MuBBa 6. työkausi
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CONTACTContact implementation
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LE6ALE6A MuBBA 6. työkausi
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EXCHEXCH Exchange students
- Course
- SPA4LE203
Evaluation scale
H-5
Schedule
The schedule is announced in Moodle.
Implementation methods, demonstration and Work&Study
The options that are appropriate for the course:
Contact lessons Individual, pair and team assignments
Independent studies
The assessment of one’s own learning 1 h
Alternative ways to complete the course: one alternative available to students is that they complete all of the coursework and take the final exam, without attending the actual contact hours.
Materials
Vásquez, Germán & Marínez Díaz, Nelson 2009. Historia de América Latina. SGEL, Madrid.
Masoliver, Joaquín & Vidales, Carlos 2009. América Latina. Samfundslitteratur. Gylling.
Ángeles Albert, Maria & Ardanaz, Francisco 2009. Hispanoamérica, ayer y hoy: historia y arte, demografía, economía, instituciones, tradiciones. SGEL. Madrid.
Newspapers in Spanish on line: El País, El Mundo, La Vanguardia, Cambio16, El Clarín,? El Mercurio.
Teaching methods and instruction
The course objective is to understand the special characteristics of Latin America and Spain: differences in geography, history, and social and economic life.
The course is divided to two parts:
1) Latin America's and Spain’s history, society and current affairs
2) Spanish Newspaper Texts: distinctive features and style of Spanish newspapers and preparations of reviews and summaries relating to these.
During the course the student seeks information through various media regarding the relations between Spain and Latin America.
The contents of the course are:
•history, society, economy and current situation of Latin America and Spain
•free Trade Agreements with Latin America: NAFTA, Mercosur, etc.
•the specific characteristics of the Hispanic press: style, features and journalistic criticism.
Exam dates and re-exam possibilities
The information will be in Moodle
Internationality
The students’ group is international.
Learning assignments
The options that are appropriate for the course:
Contact lessons Individual, pair and team assignments
Independent studies
The assessment of one’s own learning 1 h
Alternative ways to complete the course: one alternative available to students is that they complete all of the coursework and take the final exam, without attending the actual contact hours.
Assessment methods
Two written exams.
Distance assignments.
One compulsory oral presentation -PowerPoint and text- (in the 1st part) .