International Business
"Exposes the student to the business environments (culture, politics, laws and economics) encountered in other parts of the world; to the tools and skills necessary to analyze the potential of other countries as locations for production, distribution and marketing; to how managing and integrating international operations in many parts of the world differs from the domestic focus of many business courses; and to the broad perspective required of successful managers working in international business."
Course Description
One of my capstone courses, I am currently enrolled in International Business and will complete it during my final semester here at The University of Florida. Whereas the other global courses I have taken focused on a certain country or field, International Business is a sort of culmination of the rest of my international studies. While the main focus of the course is to learn how to conduct and manage business internationally, there is undoubtedly a lot that goes into that.
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Throughout the semester we have spent time discussing globalisation and emerging markets, a survey of the world's global marketplaces, some of the legal, technological, accounting, political, and cultural issues of dealing internationally, corporate social responsibility and ethics, international trade and investment, the international monetary system and forex markets, trade policies, and much more.
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My desire is to find a career that allows me to travel and work internationally with people from a range of cultures and backgrounds; as such, I have found this course to be thoroughly interesting thus far and fully expect that I will use the information I have learned in the future.
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I have also noticed that since being in this course I have been keeping up to date with more international, and domestic, issues ranging from politics and business to climate change and the arts.
