Special Learning Opportunities

Upcoming Opportunities | Other Regularly Offered Opportunities

Upcoming Opportunities

• Human Services Learning Community: The Human Services Learning Community is open to students across the college and is held every spring and fall at the Central New York Center in Syracuse. The Human Services Learning Community provides an opportunity to study face-to-face with other students in human services, three Saturdays per term. It also provides an opportunity to network with other Community and Human Services professionals, and is a place to hear from guest speakers about careers in human services, internship opportunities, and other topical issues of interest to human services students.
• Women's Studies Residency: A residency for students who wish to develop a vocabulary and critical understanding of feminist perspectives and what can be discovered examining the world through a "feminist lens." Offered in the spring.

Other Regularly Offered Opportunities

• Cultural Issues in a Global Age: The residency will take place February 14, 2009. The residency reflects today’s world of rapid but uneven communications, burgeoning but volatile economic and political entities, and complex cultural issues that influence how we live and how we engage with and take care of each other, our habitat, and a conflict-torn global society. With an opening panel that interrogates global issues, the GVC residency will take a comparative, interdisciplinary, and social action-oriented look at how human values, practices, relations, and institutions relate to international and global phenomena. The residency will be held at the DoubleTree Hotel, 1111 Jefferson Road, Rochester, New York 14623.
  
  Sample topics will include theories of how “the rest’ view the U.S., contending models of globalism versus internationalism, E-inequality, sustainability and the global and political impacts of human energy use; whether global communications are really “flat,” issues of childhood in a global age, international-comparative views on local and mediated activists for change, and whether global cultures can or are emerging.
  
  The all day Saturday residency will feature concurrent workshops, poster and roundtable luncheon discussions, and opening and closing plenary sessions. Further information on tracks of interest will be sent to areas of study across the college. Credit bearing studies that will be linked to the residency will appear in the NovemberJanuary Term Guides; linkage will also be possible for specific Totally Individualized Studies (TIS) developed to include this residency by primary mentors.
  
  For registration and hotel information, contact Timothy Cosgriff, Empire State College, 1475 Winton Road North, Rochester, NY 14609
  E-mail: timothy.cosgriff@esc.edu; phone: 585 224-327; fax: 585 224-3299
• Early Childhood Residency: Exploring Literacy and Play: The residency will take place Saturday, April 4, 2009 at the Strong National Museum of Play, One Manhattan Square, Rochester, New York. Students will learn strategies for implementing activities to enhance literacy development. Strong Museum experts will combine current research on learning through play with the theory of multiple intelligences to create active learning experiences that are applicable to the classroom. Students will use the Strong National Museum of Play’s exciting Reading Adventureland Exhibit as a source of inspiration. Participants will explore emergent literacy, vocabulary development, understanding the purposes of reading, awareness of print and literacy concepts. In small groups, participants will develop strategies to create their own playful learning curriculum.
  
  The residency fee is $55.00; special overnight accommodation rates at area hotels will be available. Contact Timothy Cosgriff, timothy.cosgriff@esc.edu or 585-224-3271 for hotel information.
  
  For additional information on this residency, please contact Timothy Cosgriff at timothy.cosgriff@esc.edu , 585-224-3271 or Jane Cudmore jane.cudmore@esc.edu , 716-686-3836.
• Emergency Service Management Residency: The Metropolitan Center’s Staten Island unit is pleased to announce a fall 2009 Emergency Service Management Residency, “Understanding Emergency Service Management: A Service Contract”.
• Environmental/Adirondack Studies Residency: An annual three-day (with optional fourth day) interdisciplinary residency at a national historic landmark at Raquette Lake, with students and faculty from across New York state. Offered every fall.
• Hudson River Valley Residency: The Hudson River Valley Residency will take place April 18 and 19, 2009 at the Roosevelt Presidential Library's Wallace Center, Hyde Park. This will be an interdisciplinary study that will focus on the history, literature, art, architecture, music, sociology, and ecology of the Hudson Valley.
  
  This residency offers a special opportunity for students to work together in the new Henry Wallace Educational Center located at the scenic Roosevelt estate on the Hudson River. Space is limited. Students will have a choice of workshops and will attend several during the weekend. Students wishing to stay overnight will be provided with a list of nearby accommodations.
  
  Independent follow-up studies on individual topics will be available in the January, March and May terms for 2-4 credits. Register for the two credit Hudson Valley Residency through the online registration process. Once you have registered, you will receive a packet of information and an additional registration form from the Hartsdale office. For additional information, please contact Amy Ruth Tobol (amyruth.tobol@esc.edu), Associate Dean (914 948-6206 x3595).
• Keep-Mills Symposium and Residency: An annual three-day residency and an online discussion on a provocative and timely topic serve as the centerpiece for studies relating to the residency's annual theme. A grant from alumnus, Stephen Mills, funds the food and lodging for 20 students to attend the residency. The theme for 2009 is "Contested Knowledge: Religious Ways of Knowing." The residency will be held at the Rensselaerville Institute Conference Center April 17-19, 2009. For additional information contact Lynn Nichols (Lynn.Nichols@esc.edu; 518 587-2100 x 2380).
• Stigma, Denial and HIV/AIDS: Lesotho to New York. A Weekend Residency in Theatre for Development
  Metropolitan Center, New York City; for additional information contact Lucy Winner (Lucy.Winner@esc.edu).
  Join participants from the Winter/Summer Institute’s (WSI) collaborative theatre project in Lesotho, southern Africa, for a weekend residency in Theatre for Development from March 6 - 8, 2009. Lesotho is an extremely poor, mountainous country inside the borders of South Africa with complex community health concerns, including an HIV infection rate ranked 3^rd highest in the world.
  
  WSI’s Theatre for Development Residency will build on the Institute’s work in 2006 and 2008, when students and faculty from Empire State College joined students and faculty from the UK, South Africa and Lesotho, and rural villagers from Lesotho’s Malealea Valley, to create collaborative, aesthetically provocative theatre around crucial issues in the battle against HIV. WSI 2006 explored the social role of gossip and silence in the spread of the virus and WSI 2008 examined issues of stigma and denial as they impact HIV’s intensifying grip. For more information about the Winter/Summer Institute, visit the web site at http://www.maketheatre.org.
  
  The interactive, hands-on Residency will include video screenings of WSI’s work, improvisational scene building, and exposure to the music and culture of Lesotho.
  
  The Residency will culminate in a collaborative performance created by participants. Participants can earn undergraduate or graduate credits for completing the WSI Residency and associated projects. More information about the residency is available (PDF file; 626 KB)(You will need Adobe Acrobat Reader version 2.0 or higher to use this file. If you are unable to open this file, please contact Lucy Winner (Lucy.Winner@esc.edu) to have a copy sent to you).
• Student Academic Conference: The Student All College Conference brings together Empire State College students from all areas of the college to share and learn from each other. This conference serves as a public recognition and celebration of our students and their academic and intellectual achievements and pursuits. Students are encouraged to submit proposals to showcase their academic work. Presenting can give you a well-deserved sense of personal satisfaction. Ideas for presentations can come from research papers, study group projects, internships, credit by evaluation proposals, artwork and/or photography. This year's Conference will take place on October 17-18, 2009 at the college's Central New York Center in Syracuse, NY. Please visit www.esc.edu/studentacademicconference for further information.
• Weekend Writing Intensive Workshops: The Hudson Valley Center hosts Weekend Writing Intensives in Fiction, Poetry, Drama, Memoir and Writing for Children. Beginners as well as seasoned writers are welcome; open to matriculated Empire State College students. Offered for the May A or B term.
• Photography Program: For photographers who want to work independently and design their own curriculum. Photojournalism workshop every summer; documentary photography every fall.