Spring 2017

Hello everyone! My name is Olivia Gonzalez and this is a blog I created for my Social Media class. Social Media is a class I am taking online to gain some practical skills about the topic. My current knowledge of social media comes from being an active user, but I am hoping to gain some more technical knowledge. So far, the class is providing me with this knowledge through weekly readings and interactive assignments that encourage me to test out different forms of social media. This week's readings focused on blogging and different blogging platforms and our interactive assignment was to create this blog!

This semester I am also taking five other classes:

1. Principles of Marketing
2. Managerial and Organizational Concepts
3. Managerial Accounting
4. Web Design for Non-Profit Organizations
5. Nonviolence: Theory and Action

My favorite class this semester is Nonviolence. My nonviolence class is writing enhanced, so it is heavily focused on teaching nonviolent principles through essays and other short writing assignments. We are also working on a longer final essay for the class in which we design a nonviolent campaign and an implementation plan. I am focusing my final essay on a campaign to increasing recycling initiatives Pace University. Curiously enough, my Managerial Accounting class is also writing enhanced. In addition to traditional tests and homework assignments in accounting, half of my final grade is dependent on a research paper I am writing about the relation between a company's performance and executive pay, especially after a scandal. I am hoping that these two writing-heavy classes will improve my research and essay writing skills.