Poem: "Pumpkin Spice Prosperity"
This was the linkback perk poem for the December 1, 2020 Poetry Fishbowl. It was originally hosted by Dreamwidth user Dialecticdreamer. It came out of the November 2020 Creative Jam, prompted by DW user Alexseanchai. It also fills the "taste" square in my 11-1-20 card for the Sense-Ation Bingo fest. This poem belongs to the Polychrome Heroics series.
"Pumpkin Spice Prosperity"
[Monday, November 23, 2015]
Karen Capellini knows
exactly what she is doing.
She has a bachelor's degree and
a master's degree in Business, plus
minors in African-American studies
and Gender and Sexuality Studies.
She knows why the pipeline leaks.
Karen has two college degrees
and a decent job at WorldWorks,
a multinational corporation, and
people still ask her to make coffee.
Unlike most of her fellow feminists,
Karen doesn't argue about that;
she makes coffee on request.
It's just not all the same coffee,
and that's what makes the difference.
When the men demand it, barking at her
like she's a barista, Karen brings them
decaf with a pinch of black salt
to mess up their money luck.
* * *
Notes:
Karen Capellini -- She has tinted skin, brown eyes, and voluminous loosely nappy hair that falls past her shoulders. It starts out dark brown but bleaches to gold in the sun. Her heritage includes American, African, Hispanic, and Italian. She speaks English, Italian, Japanese, and Spanish. She is 25 years old in 2015.
Karen grew up in Easy City, Louisiana. She earned a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration with a minor in African-American Studies at the University of Louisiana - Lafayette. Then she went on to get an Master of Business Administration with a specialization in Strategy and a minor in Gender and Sexuality Studies at New York University in New York, Eastbord, New York. Karen currently works for the executive office of WorldWorks, a multinational corporation with many different activities.
Growing up in the South gave her familiarity with Voudoun. She also has a knack for gardening, which she uses to fill her home with houseplants. She has no patience with bigots, though. Karen typically wears autumn shades of brown, goldenrod, rust, navy, and spruce. She favors more fitted clothes at work and soft, chunky sweaters at home.
Qualities: Expert (+4) Business Strategy, Good (+2) Gender Studies, Good (+2) Green Thumb, Good (+2) Self-Care, Good (+2) Voudoun
Poor (-2) Dealing with Bigots
Management, B.S.B.A.
at the University of Louisiana - Lafayette
Degree Awarded: Bachelor of Science in Business Administration
Total Credit Hours: 120-122
Career Opportunities: Corporate/small business management, retail store management, restaurant management, quality management, human resources
† Students must earn a "C" or better.
Freshman Year (33-35 credit hours)
Required Courses
• UNIV 100 - First Year Seminar
• ECON 201 - Principles of Macroeconomics †
• ENGL 101 - Introduction to Academic Writing
• ENGL 102 - Writing and Research About Culture †
• INFX 205 - Information Technology and Data Applications †
• PSYC 110 - Introduction to Psychology
• MATH 103 - Applied College Algebra Fundamentals †
• and
• MATH 104 - Applied College Algebra Fundamentals Practicum
Electives
Free elective (6 Credits)
CMCN 170 - Media and Society
History, economic, legal and technological influences of mass media. Professional practices within the media as well as advertising, public relations, and the international flow of communication.
CMCN 220 -- Principles of Strategic Communication
3 Credit(s). 0 Hour(s) Lab. 3 Hour(s) Lecture.
Development and current state of advertising and public relations. Creative, planning, and management strategies. Legal and ethical issues. Career opportunities.
Natural Sciences (6 Credits)
• BIOL 300 - Conservation of Natural Resources 3 Credit Hour(s)
• GEOL 105 - Geology and Man 3 Credit Hour(s)
Sophomore Year (30 credit hours)
Required Courses
• ACCT 201 - Introduction to Financial Accounting †
• ACCT 202 - Introduction to Managerial Accounting †
• ECON 202 - Principles of Microeconomics †
• MATH 250 - Survey of Calculus
• QMET 251 - Fundamentals of Business Statistics †
Electives
History (3 Credits)
• HIST 307 - History of Louisiana 3 Credit Hour(s)
English Literature (3 Credits)
• ENGL 380 - Readings in Literature By Women 3 Credit Hour(s)
Social/Behavioral Sciences (3 Credits)
• SOCI 241 - Contemporary Social Problems 3 Credit Hour(s)
Communication (3 Credits)
• CMCN 202 - Argumentation and Structured Decision-Making 3 Credit Hour(s)
Natural Sciences (3 Credits)
• BIOL 303 - Sociobiology 3 Credit Hour(s)
Junior Year (30 credit hours)
Required Courses
• MGMT 303 - Information Systems †
• BSAT 382 - Operations Management †
• BLAW 310 - The Legal Environment of Business †
• FNAN 300 - Business Finance †
• MGMT 320 - Management of Behavior and Organizations †
• MGMT 365 - Human Resources Management †
• MKTG 345 - Principles of Marketing †
• QMET 352 - Advanced Business Statistics
• MGMT 401 - Ethical Decision Making †
Electives
Free Elective (3 Credits)
ANTH 305 - Anthropology of Religion
3 Credit Hour(s) 3 Lecture Hour(s) 0 Lab Hour(s)
General Education Core Curriculum: Social/Behavioral Sciences
World views in folk societies, emphasizing religion and sacred beliefs. Integration of these beliefs with other areas of culture.
Senior Year (27 credit hours)
Required Courses
• MGMT 425 - International Management †
• Choose 3 credit hours from:
• MGMT 490 - Strategic Management †
Electives
Management (12 Credits) †
Choose 300-400 level courses in MGMT, PLRM, or HMGT.
• MGMT 380 - Leadership
• MGMT 400 - Business and Society
• MGMT 484 - Business Plan Creation
• MGMT 492 - Management Decision Games †
Fine Arts (3 Credits)
• MUS 360 - Cajun and Zydeco Music 3 Credit Hour(s)
Business (6 Credits)
MGMT 300 - Organizational Communication
African-American Studies Minor
at the University of Louisiana - Lafayette
Minor Requirements
Choose eighteen (18) credit hours from the following:
• CMCN 470(G) - Intercultural Communication 3 Credit(s).
• ENGL 371 - Introduction to Ethnic Literatures 3 Credit(s).
• HIST 355 - Black History 3 Credit(s).
• HIST 366 - Gender in History 3 Credit(s).
• HIST 380 - The Modern African-American Experience 3 Credit(s).
• SOCI 310 - Minority Groups 3 Credit(s).
Minimum credit hours required: 18
Core Requirements for Two Year Full-time MBA Fall Start Students
at New York University in New York, Eastbord, New York
You must complete or establish proficiency in the Required Core courses during your first semester.
Required Core: Offered in Fall? Offered in Spring?
Financial Accounting and Reporting Yes No
Statistics and Data Analysis Yes No
You must complete or establish proficiency in at least 5 of the 8 Menu Core courses during your first year.
Menu Core; Choose at least 5 of 8: Offered in Fall? Offered in Spring?
Strategy Yes No
Firms and Markets Yes No
Foundations of Finance Yes Yes
Marketing Yes Yes
Operations Management Yes Yes
The Global Economy No Yes
Leadership in Organizations No Yes
Data Science for Business: Managerial)
You must complete the Capstone Core during your second year.
Capstone Core: Offered in Fall? Offered in Spring?
Professional Responsibility OR Yes Yes
Team Communication
You must complete Team Communication during your first semester. Course dates will be available during student registration.
https://www.stern.nyu.edu/portal-partners/academic-affairs-advising/mba-programs/full-time-mba/full-time-mba-fall-start
Strategy Specialization
The goal of a successful strategy is the alignment of a firm’s internal resources and capabilities with external market opportunities to sustain an advantage relative to rivals. The strategy specialization is designed for students who will pursue careers in strategy consulting or corporate strategic planning departments. Careers oriented toward general business management, entrepreneurship, and investment banking also will benefit from greater depth in strategy coursework. The courses in this specialization provide students with cutting-edge theories and practice on such topics as value creation and capture, external analysis of industries, internal analysis of a firm’s competitive strengths and weaknesses, competitive positioning, multimarket and corporate strategy, strategic decision-making, and strategy implementation.
Academic Advisor: Professor Melissa Schilling
Course List
REQUIRED:
Full-time students who select the Strategy specialization must also complete COR1-GB.2301: Strategy (or equivalent) in addition to 9.0 credits from the list below:
MGMT-GB.2113 The Strategist
MGMT-GB.2368 Strategy: A Social Purpose
MGMT-GB.2375 Advanced Strategy: Tools
Maximum of 3 credits from this set:
ECON-GB.2348 Public Policy and Business Strategy
(T-American graduate students write an extra paper. Karen did hers on why the pipeline leaks all the way to the top, leaving few women in charge of companies.)
Gender and Sexuality Studies MINOR
at New York University
Five 4-point courses (20 points) completed with a grade of C or better are required for the minor in gender and sexuality studies. Students must take one of the following introductory courses:
Intersections: Race, Gender, and Sexuality in U.S. History (SCA-UA 230; offered every fall). They also take four designated gender and sexuality studies electives, of which two must be taught by SCA faculty.
https://cas.nyu.edu/academic-programs/bulletin/departments-and-programs/majorminor-in-gender-and-sexuality-studies/program-of-study-cas-bulletin.html
Gender and Performance
SCA-UA 455 4 points.
How do performances of gender-in everyday life and in such representational forms as theatre, film, literature, and law-produce and enforce meanings and experiences of gender? How are gender norms connected to other rules for being a subject, such as class, race, religion, sexuality, and bodily capacity? If we must become a gender to be a subject at all, can we also un-become gender and change the terms of social belonging and recognition?
Religion, Sexuality, and American Public Life
SCA-UA 812 Identical to RELST-UA 646. 4 points.
What are the “proper” role and place of religious beliefs and expressions in American public life? What are the “proper” role and place of sex in American public life? And how are these two questions related to each other? Examines the apparent contradiction between principles of church-state separation and religious freedom on the one hand, and the invocation of religious ideas to justify state regulation of bodily life, especially sexual life, on the other.
Race and Reproduction
SCA-UA 158 4 points.
Women and Slavery in the Americas
SCA-UA 730 Identical to HIST-UA 660. 4 points.
* * *
The leaky pipeline describes the loss of women, people of color, and especially minority women in business and other fields. Here are some ways to fix it.
"Pumpkin Spice Prosperity"
[Monday, November 23, 2015]
Karen Capellini knows
exactly what she is doing.
She has a bachelor's degree and
a master's degree in Business, plus
minors in African-American studies
and Gender and Sexuality Studies.
She knows why the pipeline leaks.
Karen has two college degrees
and a decent job at WorldWorks,
a multinational corporation, and
people still ask her to make coffee.
Unlike most of her fellow feminists,
Karen doesn't argue about that;
she makes coffee on request.
It's just not all the same coffee,
and that's what makes the difference.
When the men demand it, barking at her
like she's a barista, Karen brings them
decaf with a pinch of black salt
to mess up their money luck.
* * *
Notes:
Karen Capellini -- She has tinted skin, brown eyes, and voluminous loosely nappy hair that falls past her shoulders. It starts out dark brown but bleaches to gold in the sun. Her heritage includes American, African, Hispanic, and Italian. She speaks English, Italian, Japanese, and Spanish. She is 25 years old in 2015.
Karen grew up in Easy City, Louisiana. She earned a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration with a minor in African-American Studies at the University of Louisiana - Lafayette. Then she went on to get an Master of Business Administration with a specialization in Strategy and a minor in Gender and Sexuality Studies at New York University in New York, Eastbord, New York. Karen currently works for the executive office of WorldWorks, a multinational corporation with many different activities.
Growing up in the South gave her familiarity with Voudoun. She also has a knack for gardening, which she uses to fill her home with houseplants. She has no patience with bigots, though. Karen typically wears autumn shades of brown, goldenrod, rust, navy, and spruce. She favors more fitted clothes at work and soft, chunky sweaters at home.
Qualities: Expert (+4) Business Strategy, Good (+2) Gender Studies, Good (+2) Green Thumb, Good (+2) Self-Care, Good (+2) Voudoun
Poor (-2) Dealing with Bigots
Management, B.S.B.A.
at the University of Louisiana - Lafayette
Degree Awarded: Bachelor of Science in Business Administration
Total Credit Hours: 120-122
Career Opportunities: Corporate/small business management, retail store management, restaurant management, quality management, human resources
† Students must earn a "C" or better.
Freshman Year (33-35 credit hours)
Required Courses
• UNIV 100 - First Year Seminar
• ECON 201 - Principles of Macroeconomics †
• ENGL 101 - Introduction to Academic Writing
• ENGL 102 - Writing and Research About Culture †
• INFX 205 - Information Technology and Data Applications †
• PSYC 110 - Introduction to Psychology
• MATH 103 - Applied College Algebra Fundamentals †
• and
• MATH 104 - Applied College Algebra Fundamentals Practicum
Electives
Free elective (6 Credits)
CMCN 170 - Media and Society
History, economic, legal and technological influences of mass media. Professional practices within the media as well as advertising, public relations, and the international flow of communication.
CMCN 220 -- Principles of Strategic Communication
3 Credit(s). 0 Hour(s) Lab. 3 Hour(s) Lecture.
Development and current state of advertising and public relations. Creative, planning, and management strategies. Legal and ethical issues. Career opportunities.
Natural Sciences (6 Credits)
• BIOL 300 - Conservation of Natural Resources 3 Credit Hour(s)
• GEOL 105 - Geology and Man 3 Credit Hour(s)
Sophomore Year (30 credit hours)
Required Courses
• ACCT 201 - Introduction to Financial Accounting †
• ACCT 202 - Introduction to Managerial Accounting †
• ECON 202 - Principles of Microeconomics †
• MATH 250 - Survey of Calculus
• QMET 251 - Fundamentals of Business Statistics †
Electives
History (3 Credits)
• HIST 307 - History of Louisiana 3 Credit Hour(s)
English Literature (3 Credits)
• ENGL 380 - Readings in Literature By Women 3 Credit Hour(s)
Social/Behavioral Sciences (3 Credits)
• SOCI 241 - Contemporary Social Problems 3 Credit Hour(s)
Communication (3 Credits)
• CMCN 202 - Argumentation and Structured Decision-Making 3 Credit Hour(s)
Natural Sciences (3 Credits)
• BIOL 303 - Sociobiology 3 Credit Hour(s)
Junior Year (30 credit hours)
Required Courses
• MGMT 303 - Information Systems †
• BSAT 382 - Operations Management †
• BLAW 310 - The Legal Environment of Business †
• FNAN 300 - Business Finance †
• MGMT 320 - Management of Behavior and Organizations †
• MGMT 365 - Human Resources Management †
• MKTG 345 - Principles of Marketing †
• QMET 352 - Advanced Business Statistics
• MGMT 401 - Ethical Decision Making †
Electives
Free Elective (3 Credits)
ANTH 305 - Anthropology of Religion
3 Credit Hour(s) 3 Lecture Hour(s) 0 Lab Hour(s)
General Education Core Curriculum: Social/Behavioral Sciences
World views in folk societies, emphasizing religion and sacred beliefs. Integration of these beliefs with other areas of culture.
Senior Year (27 credit hours)
Required Courses
• MGMT 425 - International Management †
• Choose 3 credit hours from:
• MGMT 490 - Strategic Management †
Electives
Management (12 Credits) †
Choose 300-400 level courses in MGMT, PLRM, or HMGT.
• MGMT 380 - Leadership
• MGMT 400 - Business and Society
• MGMT 484 - Business Plan Creation
• MGMT 492 - Management Decision Games †
Fine Arts (3 Credits)
• MUS 360 - Cajun and Zydeco Music 3 Credit Hour(s)
Business (6 Credits)
MGMT 300 - Organizational Communication
African-American Studies Minor
at the University of Louisiana - Lafayette
Minor Requirements
Choose eighteen (18) credit hours from the following:
• CMCN 470(G) - Intercultural Communication 3 Credit(s).
• ENGL 371 - Introduction to Ethnic Literatures 3 Credit(s).
• HIST 355 - Black History 3 Credit(s).
• HIST 366 - Gender in History 3 Credit(s).
• HIST 380 - The Modern African-American Experience 3 Credit(s).
• SOCI 310 - Minority Groups 3 Credit(s).
Minimum credit hours required: 18
Core Requirements for Two Year Full-time MBA Fall Start Students
at New York University in New York, Eastbord, New York
You must complete or establish proficiency in the Required Core courses during your first semester.
Required Core: Offered in Fall? Offered in Spring?
Financial Accounting and Reporting Yes No
Statistics and Data Analysis Yes No
You must complete or establish proficiency in at least 5 of the 8 Menu Core courses during your first year.
Menu Core; Choose at least 5 of 8: Offered in Fall? Offered in Spring?
Strategy Yes No
Firms and Markets Yes No
Foundations of Finance Yes Yes
Marketing Yes Yes
Operations Management Yes Yes
The Global Economy No Yes
Leadership in Organizations No Yes
Data Science for Business: Managerial)
You must complete the Capstone Core during your second year.
Capstone Core: Offered in Fall? Offered in Spring?
Professional Responsibility OR Yes Yes
Team Communication
You must complete Team Communication during your first semester. Course dates will be available during student registration.
https://www.stern.nyu.edu/portal-partners/academic-affairs-advising/mba-programs/full-time-mba/full-time-mba-fall-start
Strategy Specialization
The goal of a successful strategy is the alignment of a firm’s internal resources and capabilities with external market opportunities to sustain an advantage relative to rivals. The strategy specialization is designed for students who will pursue careers in strategy consulting or corporate strategic planning departments. Careers oriented toward general business management, entrepreneurship, and investment banking also will benefit from greater depth in strategy coursework. The courses in this specialization provide students with cutting-edge theories and practice on such topics as value creation and capture, external analysis of industries, internal analysis of a firm’s competitive strengths and weaknesses, competitive positioning, multimarket and corporate strategy, strategic decision-making, and strategy implementation.
Academic Advisor: Professor Melissa Schilling
Course List
REQUIRED:
Full-time students who select the Strategy specialization must also complete COR1-GB.2301: Strategy (or equivalent) in addition to 9.0 credits from the list below:
MGMT-GB.2113 The Strategist
MGMT-GB.2368 Strategy: A Social Purpose
MGMT-GB.2375 Advanced Strategy: Tools
Maximum of 3 credits from this set:
ECON-GB.2348 Public Policy and Business Strategy
(T-American graduate students write an extra paper. Karen did hers on why the pipeline leaks all the way to the top, leaving few women in charge of companies.)
Gender and Sexuality Studies MINOR
at New York University
Five 4-point courses (20 points) completed with a grade of C or better are required for the minor in gender and sexuality studies. Students must take one of the following introductory courses:
Intersections: Race, Gender, and Sexuality in U.S. History (SCA-UA 230; offered every fall). They also take four designated gender and sexuality studies electives, of which two must be taught by SCA faculty.
https://cas.nyu.edu/academic-programs/bulletin/departments-and-programs/majorminor-in-gender-and-sexuality-studies/program-of-study-cas-bulletin.html
Gender and Performance
SCA-UA 455 4 points.
How do performances of gender-in everyday life and in such representational forms as theatre, film, literature, and law-produce and enforce meanings and experiences of gender? How are gender norms connected to other rules for being a subject, such as class, race, religion, sexuality, and bodily capacity? If we must become a gender to be a subject at all, can we also un-become gender and change the terms of social belonging and recognition?
Religion, Sexuality, and American Public Life
SCA-UA 812 Identical to RELST-UA 646. 4 points.
What are the “proper” role and place of religious beliefs and expressions in American public life? What are the “proper” role and place of sex in American public life? And how are these two questions related to each other? Examines the apparent contradiction between principles of church-state separation and religious freedom on the one hand, and the invocation of religious ideas to justify state regulation of bodily life, especially sexual life, on the other.
Race and Reproduction
SCA-UA 158 4 points.
Women and Slavery in the Americas
SCA-UA 730 Identical to HIST-UA 660. 4 points.
* * *
The leaky pipeline describes the loss of women, people of color, and especially minority women in business and other fields. Here are some ways to fix it.