Francis Marion University

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Francis Marion University

• Fall 2006 / 2007

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• Contents
• Map of the USA
• Information about Florence and Francis Marion
  University
• Reasons and Motivation for choosing the
  university
• Classes
• Apartments
• Costs
• Fazit

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Map of the USA
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Map of South Carolina
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• Florence
• 33,000 residents
• 80 miles northeast of Colombia, SC
• 100 miles north of Charleston, SC
• largest city in Florence Country
• annual average daytime temperature is 63.2F
  (18C)

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• Francis Marion University
• founded in 1970
• one of South Carolinas 12 state supported
  universities
• named after revolutionary war hero General
  Francis Marion
• enrolls nearly 4,000 students today
• located about 7 miles east of Florence

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Reasons and Motivation for choosing the university

• English first business language
• USA is an important partner for Germany
• Always wanted to study in the USA

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Classes Fall 2006 / 2007

• Business Writing 305
• - e-mail to the English department of the
  university
• - memo to the employees
• - letter to a client
• - application letter and resume
• - report about the reasons of increasing gas
  prices
• Intermediate Spanish 201

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• Intermediate Spanish I 201
• - book ARRIBA chapter 11 to 15
• - chapter 11 impersonal expressions, formal
  comands, subjective and
• indicative with adverbial conjunctions.
• - chapter 12 past participle and present
  perfect indicative, future and
• future of probability, conditional and
  conditional of probability,
• tu commands.
• - chapter13 imperfect subjuntive, long form
  possessive adjectives and
• pronouns, si clauses, future perfect and
  conditional perfect.
• - chapter 14 hacer in time expressions, past
  perfect indicative,
• past perfect subjunctive and conditional
  perfect.
• - chapter 15 subjunctive with indefinite and
  nonexistent antecedents,
• relative pronouns que, quien, and lo que and
  se for unplanned occurrences.

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• International Mangement 357
• - International Management Process, global
  Management a future perspective
• and why we need to study international
  Management.
• - four Ps in a International Strategy product /
  service strategy,
• place / entry strategy, price strategy and
  promotion strategy.
• - International Organizational Structures
• - International Managerial Staffing
• - Cross Cultural Business Practices and
  Negotiations

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• International Marketing 335
• - content of International Marketing 335 was
  very similar to
• the International Management 357 class.
• - focus of this class was on the role of
  Marketing in todays Global Economy
• - economic, political, social climates and the
  impact of these on trying to
• market globally.
• - levels of International Marketing Involvement
  
• - International Marketing Strategies

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• Investment I 347
• - Primary Market, Secondary Market
• - Money Market and the Capital Market
• - three different Treasuries in the USA (T-Bill,
  T-Note and T-Bond)
• - International Bonds (US-Pay or Foreign-Pay)

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Apartments (on campus)
Residence Halls - 2,930 (incl. meal
plan) - first year

• Village Apartments
• 1,750
• second year up to the fourth year

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• Forest Villas Apartments
• 2,195
• second year up to the fourth year

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• Costs
• Flight 800 (July, August)
• Food cheaper than in Germany
• Tuition Fee 3,163 per semester
• Books up to 120 per book

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• Fazit
• great experience
• impression of the American Way of Life
• impression of the American University System
• improvement of English and Spanish knowledge