Language Courses

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FR 2010 Intermediate French I

This course built upon the fundamentals I established in high school and through immersion to ensure a good grammar base before focusing on further articulation through writing and speaking. This course helped me master the fundamentals of French grammar by focusing on sentence structure, tense and gender agreement, and pronunciation and spelling.

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FR 3050 Intermediate French Conversation and Composition

This course was my second language course taken at Clemson. It reinforced the fundamentals of the French language through conversation and creative writing assignments. This course focused on vocabulary building, pronunciation, and comprehension.

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Minor Requirements

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POSC 4500 Modern Political Thought

This course focused on some of the most well-known thinkers and influences on political society since the Enlightenment. This course covered texts by Locke, Rousseau, and Hobbes and discussed how their philosophies and observations have shaped modern governments.

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POSC Political Theory of Capitalism

This course studies the ethical foundations of capitalism, focusing primarily on the major ethical theories that have supported or criticized capitalism throughout history. Topics covered within the course include the justification of private property, the role of corporations, the profit motive, and the sources of wealth creation.

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POSC 4050 The American Presidency

This course examines the evolution of the presidency, the powers of the chief executive, the public presidency, executive branch organization and staffing, decision-making, and political relations with Congress and the federal judiciary. 

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HIST 3360 The Indian Ocean World

This course studies the culture and civilizations throughout the Indian Ocean from ancient times to modern day. The primary focuses of this course are the trade and religious networks established and how they evolved throughout history.

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HIST 3540 Greek World

This course studies the culture and civilizations of ancient Greece from its beginning to the Roman conquests. This course concentrated on the social and cultural institutions of the various Greek city-states through the analysis of classic texts by Hesiod, Homer, Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle.

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HIST 4700 History of the Book to 1800

This course studied the origins of written texts and how their presence has shaped civilizations from the Fertile Crescent to 1800. We learned about the various methods and techniques used to record history until the invention of the printing press through hands-on activities, including tablet making, quill making, ink making, papermaking, and bookbinding.

Cultural Courses

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FR 3000 Survey of French Literature

Studying French classics by Hugo, Voltaire, Montesquieu, and Rousseau, this course examined how literature has described “strangers” and marginalized individuals. In addition to studying classics, this course used modern texts and authors to create a larger conversation about how French and francophone literature continues to portray these “strangers” and marginalized individuals in our increasingly globalized world.

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FR 3070 French Civilization

Beginning with the Gallic tribes and ending with the French Revolution, this course provided me with an in-depth understanding of the history of France and the events that have led to making the country and the culture what it is today.

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FR 3170 Contemporary French Civilization

Beginning with the end of the French Revolution, this course covered modern French history. It focused on important aspects of contemporary French culture. In this course, we studied France’s economy, government, cultural arts, and society.

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FR 4120 French and Francophone Cinema

In this course, we studied French and francophone cinema as an art form, focusing on its evolution from the first films by the Frère Lumières to today. This course taught the basic vocabulary to describe films and their techniques. It facilitated conversations about how films at different periods convey political, social, and cultural messages.

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Study Abroad Courses

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Seminar in French Culture

This seminar course explored different cultural aspects of French life. Topics covered in this course include the history of feminism, la Francophonie and the francophone world, French political institutions, the history of French music, and the French educational system.

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La langue française : niveau B2+

For students already able to converse in French, this course focuses on proper pronunciation, differentiating formal and informal speech, grammatical accuracy, and developing complex arguments in oral and written communication.

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Impressionnisme and Post-Impressionnisme

This course was taken during my semester abroad in Lyon, France, through USAC. This course was taught in English and studied the origins and evolution of the impressionist movement throughout France, Europe, and the world. This course focused on how the impressionist movement challenged and changed French society and how impressionism has evolved into today’s modern art. This course included various field trips to the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Lyon and the Musée d’Orsay in Paris.

Major Requirements

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PHIL 3150 Ancient Philosophy

This course studied Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle and how their observations and philosophies about human behavior and society apply to today’s society. We also discussed possible shortcomings within their arguments in the context of the ancient world and the modernized globalized world of today.

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LANG 4540 Selected Topics in International Film

This course studied films from different countries to analyze different depictions of power dynamics. We explored film techniques and how certain creative decisions allowed directors and stories from various cultural perspectives to convey their desired message. 

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COMM 1500 Introduction to Human Communication

This course served as an overview of theoretical approaches to the study of communication, including the theory and practice of interpersonal, small group, intercultural, and public communication. 

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POSC 1020 Introduction to International Relations

 This course was an overview of theory and practice in contemporary global politics. Topics covered in this course include the structure of and primary actors in the international system, reasons conflicts occur, and roles of international institutions, law, and policy. 

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POSC 1030 Introduction to Political Theory

This course introduced major themes and thinkers in the Western tradition of political thought. In the course, we studied classic texts from the ancient and modern periods, including Plato, Aristotle, Hobbes, Locke, and Machiavelli, to acquire a working conceptual vocabulary of normative and theoretical terms, political ideologies, and basic patterns of political organization. 

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ENGL 3180 Religion and Literature

 This course examines literary support and criticism of religion within the genre of science fiction and fantasy. This course studied the relationship between literature/artistic expression and religion.

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Business Courses

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ECON 2110 Principles of Microeconomics

This course introduced economic reasoning and its application to the study and behavior of consumers and business firms. This course focused on competition, monopoly, international trade, and the impact of public policies. 

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ECON 2120 Principles of Macroeconomics

This course serves as a continuation of ECON 2110, applying the fundamental principles of economics to the study of economics on a communal scale through case studies of various countries. This course focused on inflation, unemployment, economic growth and decay rates, and the influence of fiscal and monetary policies.