Date: Friday, October 9th @ 10am ET Geneseo Graduate, Ally Jones Title: “What made me come to Shanghai, China, and how I am dealing with COVID-19 in Shanghai while working as an ESL Teacher!”
Description:
Ally will be talking about her initial reasons for moving to China after graduating from Geneseo, and how those reasons have grown and shifted throughout her time there. She will also touch on the obstacles she’s encountered while teaching English as a second language, COVID-19, company bankruptcy, and the shift to teaching online. She encourages you to attend and be ready to ask questions!
_________________________________________________________________________________ Date: Thursday, October 15th @ 4pm ET Professor: Professor Amanda Roth Title: Paris: Philosophy of Race & Racism: On the Concept of White Privilege
This class session asks: how can philosophical tools of reasoning and argument help us better understand the concept of white privilege--and socio-political privilege more generally--as well as the often contentious public discourse around white privilege? We will draw on the classic paper by Peggy McIntosh "White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack," recent philosophical work on the notion of privilege, and our own experiences talking about the idea of white privilege in everyday life.
_________________________________________________________________________________ Date: Thursday, October 15th @ 5:30pm Professor: Professor Ian Alam Title: The Importance of Social Media Marketing
Description: Social networks are one of the fastest growing industries in the world. As a result, social media is quickly becoming one of the important aspects of marketing. The purpose of social media marketing is to build a brand and increase a brand’s visibility, through building relationships and communicating with potential customers. Yet, using social media for the purpose of marketing is a challenging task. In the class, we will explore these challenges and the best practices for effective social media marketing techniques. _________________________________________________________________________________
Date: Monday, October 19th, 2020 @ 6:00pm ET Professor: Beverly J. Evans, Distinguished Teaching Professor of French Title: Paris: From Roman Times to the Present
This class will present an overview of the history of Paris, focusing on major moments in the evolution of the city from its early days as a Celtic, then Roman, settlement to the present-day City of Light. (No knowledge of French required for this session.) ________________________________________________________________________________ Date: Wednesday, October 21st @ 5pm ET Professor: Professor Steven Brookstein Title: Introducing Blue Ocean Strategy: How To Make Competition Irrelevant
Companies are better off searching for ways to gain "uncontested market space" over competing with similar companies. These new spaces are described as "Blue Oceans", compared to the struggle for survival in bloody "Red Oceans" swarming with vicious competition. The Blue Ocean Strategy represents the simultaneous pursuit of high product differentiation and low cost, making competition irrelevant. A whole new way to look at new business opportunities. ________________________________________________________________________________
Date: Monday, November 2nd @ 4pm ET Professor: Professor Monica Hershberger Title: MUSC 227 - History of Music in Western Civilization Since 1750
Sex, drugs, and rock 'n roll classical music? In this class, we will examine Hector Berlioz's Symphonie Fantastique. Strangely enough, Berlioz wrote this symphony in 1830 to tell a story about a lovesick artist who eventually overdoses on opium. After we examine the history and sound of the Symphonie Fantastique, still widely performed by symphony orchestras across the world, we will consider how this piece complicates the popular notion of classical music as "high art." ________________________________________________________________________________
Date: Wednesday, November 4th @ 4pm ET Professor: Alice Rutkowski Title: Intro to LGBTQ+ Identities
This sample class, taught by a faculty member in English and Women's and Gender studies, is part of the basic Safe Zone workshop as offered here on campus. It introduces students to the basics of LGBTQ identities & suggests strategies about how to become a better ally - whether you identify as part of the community or just want to better support the people you know in the community. Class will be co-facilitated by student Hannah Fahy. ________________________________________________________________________________
Date: Thursday, November 5th @ 7pm ET Professor: Dr. Gerard Floriano Title: Preparing for College Vocal Auditions - Virtually!
This course's aim is to give high school students preparing for college voice auditions the do's and don'ts of how to prepare a successful virtual college audition using Zoom and piano tracks. The course will be divided into two sessions - one for classical voice, and one for musical theatre - and will be hosted by Dr. Gerard Floriano, who serves as Chair of the Department of Music and SUNY Geneseo and Artistic Director of Finger Lakes Opera, with faculty from the SUNY Geneseo Department of Music.