Course evaluation

Organizations & Cultures is a journey through the world in the search of knowledge

During this semester, and thanks to this subject, I've learned more than others semesters and was able to recreate the world. Being at the "doors of graduation" makes you think about the importance of you career, the impact it has on the world, and the quality of your knowledge.

My knowledge was above average in important aspects of my career and the different subjects I studied over these 5 years, but knowing all this about the culture and the world was not one of my topics of expertise. Although through this years of study, specific subjects of our career talked about understanding culture, learning different aspects of negotiation and managing diversity, most of this subjects talked always about the same regions and countries (Europe, USA and LA), and yet the study of these cultures and these countries was vague and not very rewarding.

In my previews semester, I finally feelt like I was learning something beyond common studies, I finally thought that I was learning valuable information for my professional and my personal life. We studied the world's different cultures in a total different way. Intercultural Management was without a doubt one of my favorite's subject during my career course.

I was very satisfied with this subject and I honestly didn't believe that there could be another subject that with the power to arouse my desire to learn in such a high level. But thank god I was wrong, because organizations & cultures was the perfect continuation for this subject.

In fact I now think that Intercultural management wouldn't have much sense without organizations & cultures, now I see it like the entree to the main plate.

Learning about cultures and diversity has always been one of my passions and was the main reason for my career decision. This subject helped me learned so much and much more.

After learning to understand culture, and ways to reach business cultural success, this course transports a similar but yet different "societies", organizations.

This course helps us understand and manage organizational behavior at the international level by explaining the role that cultural aspects have in organizational behavior. Understanding cross-cultural issues is unquestionably a must for international negotiators in order to be capable and be able to negotiate effectively.

In addition, the hard assignment of creating a blog pushes ones to the limit (in a positive way) for me, this weekly task meant "forcing my self to think and analyze in many different ways"; this exercises not only helped me to learn more but they also helped me reach a higher level of analysis.

This subject makes you push your self and encourages knowledge growth in a very enjoyable way.

I am defiantly in doubt with the teacher, Maria Alejandra Gonzalez, because with out her this course would not have been for me the instructive experience that it was. At the beginning I was amazed and surprised about how young she was, but she is one of those persons capable to transmit and show with one fraise, her experience, wisdom and extensive knowledge.

And an admirable thing is that she shares her knowledge and it's always willing to teach.