Northwestern University
- BS in Economics
- BS in Communication Studies
- Integrated Marketing Communications Certificate
- GPA: 3.96
- Graduating June 2025
- Language Courses: Spanish & Italian
Economics Courses
I developed strong analytical and quantitative skills, gaining a deep understanding of economic theories, models, and frameworks. I learned to apply statistical methods and econometric tools to analyze data, forecast trends, and evaluate economic policies. After establishing core neoclassical economic theory in Macroeconomics, Microeconomics, Statistics, and Econometrics courses, I studied the following courses of applied economic theory:
Money and Banking
The role of money, banking, and financial markets in the modern economy. Topics include: function and history of money, financial flows, evolving nature of banks and their regulation, monetary policy, modern central bank practices, effect of monetary policy on economic outcomes, and the response to financial crises.
Behavioral Economics
Understanding of how humans make choices in economic situations. The incorporation of psychology and/or sociology into economics to gain deeper insight into economic behavior, to make better predictions, and to generate improved policy prescriptions.
Economics of Gender
Analysis of gender differences in employment, earnings and division of labor in the household. Topics include: the status of women around the world, education, marriage, fertility, labor supply, household decision-making, and discrimination.
Economics of European Integration
Covers the main economic aspects of the current development of the European Union and its policies, focusing on the economic analysis of the policies and prospects of the European Union.
Environmental Economics
Economic analysis of scarcity and incentives explaining environmental issues such as pollution and climate change. Modeling and evaluation of public policy.
Transportation Economics
Economics of all forms of transportation and the regulatory and public policy environment in which they operate. Topics include: demand by passengers and freight shippers, costs of production, optimal pricing, regulatory interventions, subsidies, evaluation of investment, and dealing with congestion.
Communications Courses
Research Seminar: Climate Change Persuasion, and Social Influence
Small seminars in research topics led by different members of the department faculty. Students complete a research paper on a topic related to the seminar theme.
Social Media Technology and Mental Health
Media content and effects are explored in various domains, including politics, violence, sexuality, marketing, health, science, and video games.
Community Integration of Labeled People
Examination of local integration initiatives, the role of professionals, the language used to describe the initiatives, the social service system’s responses, and the agents and communities that have constructed inclusive environments for people labeled with disabilities.
Environmental Art and Advocacy
Examines the use of visual and media arts for public advocacy regarding environmental concerns. We focus on advocacy groups using artistic works, practices, or techniques, and on artists shaping their work to inform and persuade the public.
Communication and Misinformation
Explores the factors that make people vulnerable to misinformation and the reasons that corrections so often fail to change their minds. We will also analyze how those tendencies are enhanced by media technologies and exploited by various stakeholders. In addition, we will consider possible remedies that could be employed to combat misperceptions.
Non Profit Communication Management
Nongovernmental organizations and the campaigns they create. Examined through three interrelated modules: differentiating nongovernmental organizations from business and government organizations; issues they face that their government and business counterparts do not; nonprofit campaigns and public communication.
Communication and Technology
Examines factors informing and shaping the design of everyday objects and our virtual world; psychological aspects of computer-mediated communication and virtual collaboration, including impression formation, group dynamics, and social networks.
Rhetoric Writing and Social Justice
Survey of major theories that explain how to change another person’s attitudes and behaviors. Applications to persuasion within a variety of contexts, including relationships, organizations, legal campaigns, and the mass culture.
Black Feminist Health Science Studies
Emergent subfield and critical intervention into a number of intersecting arenas of scholarship and activism. Examines important issues in healthcare and science by analyzing some of the foundational assumptions in the field of medicine.
Public Speaking
Theory, composition, delivery, and criticism of public speeches.
Renaissance Art History
Survey of Italian art and architecture from c. 1200 to 1600 with an emphasis on style, patronage, artistic techniques, and the social, political, and devotional contexts of works by major artists and architects.
Adolescent Development
Examination of children’s media from psychological, sociological, historical, and other perspectives. Discussion of the role of media in children’s development.
Integrated Marketing Communications
Strategic approach to marketing centered around the customer and driven by quantitative and qualitative data.
Consumer Insights
Psychological, economic, communication, anthropological, and sociological perspectives on why and how individuals, families, and groups acquire, consume, and dispose of goods, services, ideas, brands, and experiences.
Research for Marketing
Covers analytic methods and metrics to develop, execute and evaluate marketing communications. Develops hands-on analytic skills with Qualtrics survey software and SPSS statistics software.
Communications Strategy
Consumer insight and research, market segmentation, brand positioning, communication messages, and media decisions. Integrated with other aspects of marketing, including product strategy, pricing, and retailing.
Strategic Communication
Development and execution of communications strategies and relationship building with employees, the news media, government, investors, and the public.
Sports Marketing
Demonstrates how technology can be applied to the worlds of sports marketing, sports operations, finance, PR, and product management.
Computer Science
Introduction to programming practice using Python. Analysis and formulation of problems for computer solution. Systematic design, construction, and testing of programs.
Research Papers
The Perfect Storm of Totalitarianism
How could a totalitarian State Rise in the Face of Modern Democracy? Utilizing global politics analytical lenses and case studies of countries with different levels of totalitarian control.
Decreasing the Severity of Coronavirus with an SIR Model
What are the effects of social distancing and self-isolation on a pandemic such as the coronavirus outbreak? Utilizing the SIR Model by Ross and Hamer to calculate the theoretical spread of the highly contagious disease.
Should iRhythm Technologies Invest in Creating a New Customer Care Branch?
Utilizing profitability and liquidity ratio analysis, force field analysis, and fishbone diagram to determining strategies for the medical device company.
Difference Between Benefits of Aerobic and Anaerobic Sports on Cardiovascular Health
How do anaerobic sports compare to aerobic forms of exercise in their effect on the cardiovascular system of the Homo sapien body demonstrated through the heart rate recovery time of female athletes?
Areas of Knowledge – Use in Combination
Combining areas of knowledge creates a broader perspective, making the individual more effectively informed. Utilizing the theories of knowledge lens to dissect the power of knowledge in conjunction.
Ancient Roman Education System
Analyzing and translating primary sources of ancient Roman text to determine the efficacy of early forms of education. Understanding how educational systems have developed and changed over time.
Biodiversity and GMOS
Studying the loss of biodiversity and ecosystem destruction as well as the ethicalities of genetically modified organisms, focused on the UNEP from the United States.
Nuclear Waste Management
Use of Nuclear techniques to combat climate change with a focus on the IAEA from the perspective of Egypt. Determining unique solutions to utilize and safely store nuclear energy.
Global Refugee Crisis
The role of the Security Council in the US on the global refugee crisis and addressing the Yemeni Civil War from the perspective of the United Kingdom.
The Informal Economy
Understanding the economy that is neither taxed nor monitored by a government and is not included in a government’s GNP. Specifically, understanding the impact in Pakistan.
Pharmaceutical Crime and Red Notice Abuse
Recommendations for the ICPO in the UN on the severity and impact of both pharmaceutical crime and red notice abuse from Peru. Determining the best policy implementation to protect citizens.
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