I have 5 different classes: 4 in business, 1 in sociology. The bad point from having taken business classes is that we have already studied many of these classes. Most of the concepts seen in class, I have already heard about them or learnt them in Esdes or in high school. But on the other hand, it is easier to understand, and I don’t need to do all the readings or doing all the exercises to do understand what the professor tells. So it is all a lot of work less.

International business: Globalization is studied, how companies deal with different cultures, international exchanges, the different actor of  globalization… The professor is interesting, he speaks on a rather slow way, with a good accent (I mean, understandable). There is readings to do for every classes and an assignment in group also, report or oral presentation.

Business Decision Making: it is management; so it is very wide and many different domains are taught: finance, managing a team, managing money… The professor that I have is very boring and speaks always on the same voice, on a boring way. Nobody is listening to her. So classes are not pretty exciting. As an application of the theory, there is a enterprise managing game, as Kalypso, that we play in group. It is called “Mikes Bike”, and as Kalypso, we have to decide the amount of production we want to do, the investment…for every year, in competition with the others group from the class.

Consumer Behavior: It is a marketing class, as the title expresses it, focused on consumers. The teacher is very dynamic and interesting. We quite often have little assignments to do in group, in class or to prepare, and to present our result to the class. It is stimulating and so people get easily involved in class. We also have to do a presentation, in team, for the exam.

Marketing communications: It is a marketing class, focused on communication channels, the message, how delivering it, in content and form. The professor is nice, always kidding and joking with students. He often shows us an ad at the beginning of the hour, so that’s entertaining. Meanwhile I find the content pretty boring, as it is concepts that we have already studied at Esdes.

Tradition in Social Thoughts: The title from this course could seem very boring, but actually, it is really interesting. It is the no-business subject, that I picked up and it is my favorite one. The whole sociological thought is reviewed here, from the industrial revolution to nowadays, with all the different thinking movements and great historical sociologists. The professor likes his job and his subject, and it shows! Even if there is a big clock upon the board in the classroom, I forget time running in every class. The bad point: an essay has ti be written by our own (so not in group), and that’s is not the shortest! (6-11 pages). And readings have to be made for every class (as for every classes, actually), and it is not the easiest ever since it is the original author textes. And as I have not obviously studied the concepts before, it is better, if I want to well figure out the things in class, to read them on a previous hand.

I have also attended to catholic studies classes. Friends from the JAM told me about it and as I was curious to see, I came. The teacher is really nice, calm and speaks on a slow and very understandable way so that is really amazing to get all the informations. The class is about the catholic history and religious concept: great characters as Mother Teresa, Jean Paul II or famous saints, but also catholic principles/fundamentals (virtues, sins, holy spirit…) are here taught. It my recreation class, because I am free to attend or not, and it is really relaxing (above all thanks to the professor’s way to talk).