Dr. Kenrick Jordan (CCU) 2014

Dr. Kenrick Jordan is a Lecturer in Economics at the E. Craig Wall Sr. College of Business Administration at Coastal Carolina University, which is located in South Carolina, USA.

Previously, he was a Senior Economist at BMO Financial Group in Toronto, Canada where he specialized in industry and commodity market analysis. Dr. Jordan also worked as an Economist with the Caribbean Community Secretariat and as a Research Associate with the University of Florida, where he focused, respectively, on international trade and market competition. Dr. Jordan is interested in general economics, industrial performance, resource economics, international trade, and the economics of developing countries. He has economics degrees from the University of the West Indies (B.A.), the University of East Anglia in the United Kingdom (M.A.), and the University of Florida in the United States (M.S. and Ph.D.).

Since South Carolina and Rhineland Palatinate are sister states, Coastal Carolina University developed a partnership with Hochschule Koblenz. Student exchange, faculty exchange and a highly successful Summer School Program are three pillars of this long-standing cooperation.

Dr. Jordan taught three courses at RheinAhrCampus as a guest professor from May to July 2014 (second teaching term):

1. Managerial Economics in a Global Context (Monday, 16:00-19:15, A129)
2. International Study Skills: Global Economic Issues (Tuesday, 8:15-11:30, A013)
3. Macroeconomic key factors and their impact on business (Monday, 14:15 and Tuesday, 11:45, A129)

All of these courses were taught in English. The students had to write papers, deal with project assignments and participate in discussions. Thus, the students at RheinAhrCampus were able to substantially improve their oral and writing skills in English.