Courses

My Courses in Profile:

 

At St. Edward’s you have the choice between so many courses. There are majors in “The Bill Munday School of Business”, in the “School of Behavioral and Social Sciences”, the “School of Natural Sciences”, the “School of Humanities” and the “School of Education”.
In this blog post I want to introduce the courses I am taking at St. Edward’s, but if you want some information about other courses, you can easily find them at this page.

Business Statistics:

Business Statistics is a really interesting and useful 3-hour course, if you want to become an accountant or want any other job related to mathematics and statistics. You learn a lot of useful formulas and equitation’s, that won’t just make your other math courses easier, but it also gives you advantages for your future job.

I am having this course two times a week for one hour and fifteen minutes. 
Your grade consists of a Homework part and an Exam Part. During the Semester you will have to submit 12 Homework's and you will be writing 4 Exams. 
These are some of the Learning Objectives stated in the Syllabus:

1. Obtain an appreciation for the breadth of statistical applications in business and economics.
2. Learn about the sources of data for statistical analysis both internal and external to the firm.
3. Know the meaning of descriptive statistics and statistical inference.
4. Learn how to construct and interpret both tabular and graphical summarization procedures for qualitative and quantitative data.
5. Understand how z scores are computed and how the empirical rule is used [...]
6. Understand the importance of sampling and how results from samples can be used [...]
7. Know what sample random sampling is and how simple random samples are selected.  
8. Know the Central Limit Theorem and the important role it plays in sampling. 
9. Learn how to formulate and test hypotheses about a population mean and proportion. 

I really enjoyed attending this course, simple because I actually enjoy doing math and also because you learn a lot of useful stuff for your future job. You know how to calculated, interpret and use important data for your company and what impact it will have. 

Business Communication:

The Business Communication course is a 3-hour class which emphasizes how important it is in a job to communicate with your colleagues in a proper and productive way and how to do that. But it's also a really good course to prepare you for tasks that come up with applying for a job and for tasks that definitely will come up during your job.  

Depending on which course you are getting into, you can either have the course once every two weeks for three hours or twice every week for one hour thirty minutes. 

I had it every two weeks and I think this model was very convenient to do the homework on the weeks off. 

In class we also had plenty guest lecturers with really interesting presentations and activities to develop your knowledge in business communication.
To enhance your chances in applying successfully for a new job we had to improve our job application portfolio and our LinkedIn profile as a homework. We got important tips how to improve both and how we can represent ourselves in a proper way in this class.
Another important aspect of this course was not just the preparation for the work we will have to do before the job but the work we have to do in the job as well. So we also had to practise writing business emails and statements, the biggest project was a group work that includes a presentation and a business proposal. The course was a good opportunity to practice and enhance business related activities and if you have some difficulties in this tasks I highly recommend attending this course.  

Intercultural Communication:

Another good communication course I am attending is Intercultural Communication. It's a 3-hour class with two classes every week. 

In this class you learn why society is the way it is today. You learn about and how language evolved and affected every part of our life and how it developed our culture.  You learn something about other cultures and why diversity is so important, even in world of globalization.
You learn about what constrains culture and what threatens cultures.
You amplify your view of the world and your place in it and what I especially liked about this course is that class discussions are welcome. You can share opinions and questions that are related to the course and discuss about in class which makes this course so interesting and one of my favorites.

To challenge everything, you have learned there are several quizzes and test about the content of the course.

Spanish I:

The Spanish I course is a beginner course. It's a 3-hour course with three fifty minutes' classes during the week. For me it was understood that I would learn a new language at St. Ed's and with Spanish, I found one of the world most common languages I'd have to learn.

The focus in this course is to speak the language. So during class you have to speak Spanish at least once every class. Also you have to do homework on every day of class, so three homework's every week. I liked that, because that's the way to remember everything you did in class and to strengthen what you have learned.

The things you have learned in class are challenged on several ways, but there are always preparation courses online before every bigger test. During the semester you will have to answer several quizzes and bigger exams, but there are also two oral interviews to challenge your oral skills in pronunciation and vocabulary and you will have to do two big compositions as well.

Digital Media & Analytics:

The Digital Media & Analytics course is a 3-hour course and is the course where I had to do the most work. You'll have it two times a week for one hour and fifteen minutes. Even though that this was the course where I had to put in my most effort, I highly recommend this course! I have learned the most out of this course and if you want to gain knowledge in Digital Media there is no way you want to miss this course! It's also not just useful for people interested in Digital Media or Marketing but it's also very useful for entrepreneurs who want to know how to advertise their future company.
The course is described as followed in the Syllabus:

"Introduces a paradigm of dynamically and directly interacting with customers through digital means by providing a framework and tools for managing and analyzing an organization's virtual presence for marketing purposes. Applies concepts of digital marketing in practice through applicable projects and assignments. Students are given the opportunity to experience and analyze the effects of creating, promoting, and adapting an online identity for a marketing, entrepreneurial or digital media organization."

Also here are some of the course objectives:

1. [...] examine the organization's ability to use both on- and offline strategies to promote their product [...]

2. [...] evaluate performance metrics and make recommendations for changes. 

3. [...] evaluate the company's use of critical strategies of direct marketing, and other tools such as email marketing [...]

4. [...] evaluate the company's individual's presence on paid and organic search and public social media platforms.

In this course I have learned how to create a blog, I have learned how to use Google Analytics and how to interpret the data gained by this program. Also I have learned how to set up email marketing campaigns and how to promote your form of web presence. You constantly have to report on your progress you have made by finishing these tasks and the weekly quizzes strengthen your knowledge in what you have learned. This knowledge is essential for the HubSpot and Google AdWords certification you have to do in the course. All in all this course teaches you a lot of useful information and the certifications you will get by taking this course will also be a benefit for future applications and jobs.