Regular Courses (EN) - Intermediate I

Regular courses (in English)
ESCI BUSINESS SCHOOL
UPFESCI01 Introduction to Financial Accounting
This course introduces students to basic terminology, concepts, and practices of financial accounting. The goals are for students to be able to read correctly the primary financial statements, to understand the procedures used to prepare them, and to start to exploit their potential for analyzing the economic status and performance of companies. Course Orientation Lectures, exercises, cases, simulation game, computer tutorial. Credits: 4 Institution: Escuela Superior de Comercio Internacional (ESCI) Requirements: Advanced course. You should have taken an introductory course to Financial Accounting. Schedule: Download schedule for outside courses
UPFESCI02 Business Economics I
This course provides an overview of important topics like strategy, organization structures, control systems, leadership and motivation... which are fundamental in our understanding of organizations and that will provide a conceptual framework for future insights in those concepts. Credits: 4 Institution: Escuela Superior de Comercio Internacional (ESCI) Schedule: Download schedule for outside courses
UPFESCI03 Legal Market of the European Union
This course looks at the principles of European Law, specific issues concerning the legal market in the European Union. Credits: 4 Institution: Escuela Superior de Comercio Internacional (ESCI) Requirements: Advanced course. You should have taken an introductory course to Marketing. Schedule: Download schedule for outside courses
UPFESCI04 Strategic Operational Marketing
This course has two major interrelated objectives: 1) to enable the student the development of his/her business judgment and skills and 2) to provide the student the necessary tools to effectively manage the marketing planning process. Credits: 4 Institution: Escuela Superior de Comercio Internacional (ESCI) Requirements: Advanced course. You should have taken an introductory course to Marketing. Schedule: Download schedule for outside courses
UPFESCI05 Marketing Management II
This course has two major interrelated objectives: 1) to enable the student to develop his business judgment and skills and 2) provide the student the necessary tools to efectively and efficiently manage the marketing planning process. Credits: 4 Institution: Escuela Superior de Comercio Internacional (ESCI) Requirements: Advanced course. You should have taken an introductory course to Marketing. Schedule: Download schedule for outside courses
UPFESCI06 Strategic Management II
This course aims at familiarizing students with the tasks that every General Manager and his team have to master and be aware of in order to achieve a successful implementation of the company's strategy. Credits: 4 Institution: Escuela Superior de Comercio Internacional (ESCI) Requirements: Advanced course. Requires Business Economics. Schedule: Download schedule for outside courses
UPFESCI07 Marketing Management IV
International Marketing is an extension of the marketing concepts you are already familiar with but focuses on the challenge, as well as opportunities, of marketing new and existing products to the global marketplace. Many marketing knowledge that you currently possess or have started to develop may be applied internationally, but they need to be modified in order to fit the specific needs of international business. Accordingly, allowance has to be made for the different cultural, economic, technological, political and legal environments in each country, and the impact these factors will have on the marketing process, ranging from data collection to advertising campaigns. The understanding of cross-cultural diversity is important in this respect. This course has been structured to follow the marketing activities of a business from the original decision to internationalize through to the planning and implementation stages of marketing internationally. In the course, the various marketing concepts, such as distribution networks, pricing and promotional methods are taken into consideration from a cross-cultural perspective. Key variations from home-country marketing are highlighted, and strategies that an international marketer can apply are examined with the assistance of various cases and examples. Credits: 4 Institution: Escuela Superior de Comercio Internacional (ESCI) Schedule: Download schedule for outside courses
UPFESCI08 Human Resources Management
This course will analyze Human Resources Management (HRM) from multiple perspectives: economics, sociology, social psychology and the law and, at the same time, considering that essentially HRM is mostly a strategic tool for the firm. Its design corresponds to the general manager. Keeping in mind that everyone is a human resource within a firm, good HRM practices are key to business success, therefore is not all a matter of the "personnel" department. Credits: 4 Institution: Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF) Schedule: Download schedule for outside courses
UPFESCI09 International Strategic Management
The course aims at familiarizing students with the considerations a management team contemplates when looking at the international context. Free trade agreements and the growing pace of globalization have created new opportunities for companies to expand their activities worldwide. This course is about understanding the figure of the manager in an international company, as well as meeting the challenges faced by managers and firms competing internationally. It is about how firms can use international strategy to build and sustain competitive advantage in an international context. The course is structured with a mix of lectures, case studies and students´ presentations. Continuous participation from the students is required in all phases of the course. Cases and selected article readings must be prepared prior to class. The classes´ detailed calendar will be distributed at the first session. Credits: 4 Institution: Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF) Schedule: Download schedule for outside courses
UNIVERSITAT POMPEU FABRA (UPF)
UPF82865 The History of European Integration: Challenges and Response
This course aims to explain the history of the European Union, from the early inception of the European Coal and Steel Community to the present, within a permanent comparative perspective and taking into account the evolution of the international economy and world relations. Instructors aim to help the students understand the specific aims and evolution in the practice of the different mechanisms of integration and/or co-operation among the European nations from 1945 to the present. The main argument throughout the course will be that integration constitutes a specific response by a set of nations to events unanimously felt as crucial challenges to their fundamental economic, social and political goals, either as individual nations or as a community of nations. This course does not require any specific academic background. Students from Political Science, History, and Humanities in general, Language translation, etc., apart from Economics and Business, are welcomed. The instructor will stimulate constant student participation, which is a crucial component of the final grade. Credits: 4 Institution: Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF) Schedule: Download schedule for outside courses
UPF11850-G1 Corporate Finance I
This course addresses the firm's financial decision problem relating the cost of funds to the returns required by the firm's investors. The course focuses on the problem of determining a firm's optimal capital structure and minimizing its cost of capital explaining different theoretical approaches, their limitations and applications. It also covers pricing problems (in particular the pricing of debt, convertible debt and warrants issued by a firm) and dividend policy models. This course deals with corporate finance issues and answers questions such as: is a firm financing policy relevant to determine the firm's market value? How to value bonds, convertible bonds and warrants? How to structure a firm's dividend policy? Credits: 4 Institution: Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF) Schedule: Download schedule for outside courses
UPF11851-G1 Corporate Finance II
This course addresses the firm's financial decision problem relating the cost of funds to the returns required by the firm's investors. The course focuses on the problem of determining a firm's optimal capital structure and minimizing its cost of capital explaining different theoretical approaches, their limitations and applications. It also covers pricing problems (in particular the pricing of debt, convertible debt and warrants issued by a firm) and dividend policy models. Credits: 4 Institution: Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF) Schedule: Download schedule for outside courses
UPF10105-G1 Commercial Managment I
This course is an introduction to the subject of marketing management. It deals with the basic conceptual aspects of this field of management and introduces the student to the tools necessary for the analysis prior to the development of a marketing plan. Credits: 4 Institution: Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF) Schedule: Download schedule for outside courses
UPF10076 Economic Theory II
Basic national income accounting. Neoclassical theory of production, consumption, and real interest rate. Economic growth in the long run. Convergence between poor and rich countries. Business cycle theories. Keynesian IS-LM model. The role of fiscal policy and monetary policy for economic fluctuations. Credits: 4 Institution: Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF) Schedule: Download schedule for outside courses
UPF11871-G1 Labour Economics
Overview of the Labour Market. Labour demand and supply. Wage differentials, discrimination and unemployment. Trade unions. Globalization and the Labour Market. Credits: 4 Institution: Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF) Schedule: Download schedule for outside courses
UPF11838 Microeconomics II
This course analyzes the theory of industrial organization. We study industries and markets in which only a few (or possibly only one) firms operate. These markets don´t function according to the the theory of perfect competition. The firms can act strategically in order to maximize their profits. These actions not only affect their profits, but also the welfare of consumers. Analyzing firm interaction and welfare effects is not only important for firms and consumers, but also for governments and antitrust agencies, which can propose measures to promote competition in markets. Although the course is theoretical, by the end students will be able to identify and classify strategic behavior of firms such as Télefonica, Microsoft, la OPEC, Boeing y Airbus Credits: 4 Institution: Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF) Schedule: Download schedule for outside courses
UPF11841-G1 Public Sector I
Rationality of Public intervention and social welfare. Public provision, direct production and proficiency. Fiscal Fedarlism. International Public Finance. Credits: 4 Institution: Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF) Schedule: Download schedule for outside courses
UPF11857-G1 Game Theory
Motivational games, Simultaneous 2-person zero-sum games, including the concept of mixed strategy and the Minmax theorem. Also, a brief dicussion of expected utility theory (the representation theorem, Allais paradox. Credits: 4 Institution: Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF) Schedule: Download schedule for outside courses
UPF82894 Social Entrepreneurship
In this course we will analyze social entrepreneurship as a mechanism to resolve social problems through building business that are profitable and innovative. We will be based our outlook on the premise that if we examine social problems through the lens of an entrepreneur that detects opportunities and develops innovative and competitive business models, we will be able to create businesses that will generate social benefits in a sustainable manner and able to generate economic benefits as well. Instead of the traditional business creation course, where the main focus is on creating businesses of economic utility, in this course we will examine the strategy of combining the analysis of social problems or needs with the creation of a business that generates revenue and is financially self-sustained. Through the analysis of case studies, the discussion of theoretical concepts and presentations by leaders of social businesses, who will describe their experiences, the student will be able to determine the strengths and weaknesses of the different social entrepreneurial outlooks and models. Likewise, students will applied what they learn in the development of a real social enterprise. This course is directed to innovative students interested in promoting social and economic wealth independently of their academia area of interest. Credits: 4 Institution: Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF) Schedule: Download schedule for outside courses
UNIVERSITAT RAMON LLULL (URL) - SANT IGNASI
URSI01 Events Management
This module aims to develop an understanding of the nature of events and basic management functions of events within a tourism related context. To gain an understanding of the subject event management will require coverage of a range of disciplines. Students will acquire insight into the nature of planned events and into its management fundamentals. Besides learning about the technical and organisational aspects of how to organise, plan and manage events, this module aims at teaching the students to view events within the context of its surrounding tourism industry. Credits: 3 Institution: Sant Ignasi (URL) Schedule: Download schedule for outside courses
URSI03 Sustainable Tourism Cases
Introduction to Tourism Analysis. The dimensions of territory and environment in tourism. Tourism as a factor in regional development 3.1 Organisational and management factors of a touristic area 3.2 Natural resources and quality of the environment. Credits: 2 Institution: Sant Ignasi (URL) Schedule: Download schedule for outside courses
URSI06 Destination Barcelona
The purpose of this course is to provide prospective guides, with a better understanding of their role as interpreters of Barcelonaâ€™s cultural heritage. Credits: 3 Institution: Sant Ignasi (URL) Schedule: Download schedule for outside courses
UNIVERSITAT AUTòNOMA (UAB)
UAB25038-G4 Statistics II
Estimation, selecting a sample audience, contrasting hypothesis, correlation. Credits: 3 Institution: Sant Ignasi (URL) Schedule: Download schedule for outside courses
UAB25039-G4 Macroeconomics II
Consumption and investment. Money and inflation. Aggregate demand and supply. Business fluctuations and open economy. Credits: 3 Institution: Sant Ignasi (URL) Schedule: Download schedule for outside courses
UAB25078-G51 History and Economic Thought
This course introduces each school of thought along with its most widely read writers and applies the contributions of each school of thought to Economic Science: Classical Political Economy, Variant Marxist Economy, Marginalism, the Institutionalist School, Keynesian School and contemporary currents. Credits: 3 Institution: Sant Ignasi (URL) Schedule: Download schedule for outside courses
UAB25187-G2 European Economic Integration
Aspects of common European Territories. CE-EFTA convergence. External Economic Relations. Expansion of the European Union. Credits: 3 Institution: Sant Ignasi (URL) Schedule: Download schedule for outside courses