Cost - Free Email - ai@sfsu.edu This course introduces generative AI to those with little or no prior experience engaging with this emerging technology. Participants obtain a foundational understanding of generative AI, its associated opportunities and implications, and basic strategies for composing and iterating prompts. Participants will be expected to engage in hands-on interaction with the Microsoft Copilot chatbot to begin generating practical outputs for personal and professional use cases. This course is an elective that counts toward receiving a digital badge for the AI Literacy Education Program (https://ai.sfsu.edu/start-your-ai-journey).

Cost - Free Email - carolinaprado@sfsu.edu Dia de los Muertos, 10/30 3:30-5:30 p.m., Rosa Parks Room at the Cesar Chavez Student Center Celebrate Dia de los Muertos by creating an amaranth skull for your altar! Tere Almaguer and Nancy Pili, from Poder! SF, will discuss decolonizing our ancestral offerings and connecting to ancestral seeds that nurture our bodies and the land. In this event, our facilitators will open with sharing stories of how we are connected to Amaranth and the role of ofrendas for Dia de los Muertos. You will get to use a mold to make one amaranth skull to eat and one to take home. Participants get their own plate and supplies to take to their desk to decorate and personalize their ofrenda. Co-sponsored by SFSUs Department of Latina/Latino Studies, Queer Latinx Club, and the Queer and Trans Resource Center. For questions, reach out to Dr. Carolina Prado (carolinaprado@sfsu.edu).

Cost - Free Email - phlsphr@sfsu.edu The Chin-Plaisance Colloquia Committee and the Department of Philosophy are delighted to welcome Dr. Alejandro Naranjo Sandoval (UC Davis) to SFSU. The talk will begin at 4 p.m. A meet and greet with Dr. Sandoval will follow. All are welcome! "Natural Destiny in Poulain's Account of Gender Inequality" Abstract: Whence come gender and gender inequality nature or society? Poulain de la Barre (1647-1723) is often thought to be an early proponent of the view that gender and gender inequality is the result of social factors, as opposed to innate physical or mental differences. But, I argue, his views are more complicated than that. For Poulain, some physical differences between the sexes play an irreducible role in bringing about gender difference. They do so sometimes directly, but most commonly indirectly, in a way that is mediated by custom. What is distinctive and innovative about Poulain, then, is his nuanced views about how small physical differences ultimately lead to immense social ones, in the presence of certain conditions. Along the way, I discuss whether Poulain can be said to have recognized the gender/sex distinction.

Email - ecerpa@sfsu.edu Attend the Paralegal Studies online information session, and find out how our ABA-approved, 100% online certificate program will prepare you for a career in legal services. You will learn about our comprehensive curriculum, faculty of legal experts and certificate requirements. Additional topics include: application procedures, internship opportunities and career outlook. $3,000 David Goldstein Memorial Scholarship for certificate students. RSVP to receive the Zoom details: https://cpage.sfsu.edu/paralegal/events/info-session

Cost - Free Email - at@sfsu.edu Happy Halloween! Experience a terrifying VR Haunted House filled with eerie corridors, ghostly encounters and heart-pounding scaresdare to enter if you can!

Cost - Free Email - ai@sfsu.edu This course offers a focused exploration of prompting and iteration strategies for generative AI chatbots like Microsoft Copilot. Through collaborative, hands-on activities and interactive exercises, participants will learn to write clear, effective prompts, apply refinement techniques such as prompt chaining, and assess AI-generated outputs for accuracy and relevance to achieve more reliable and useful results in a variety of academic and non-academic contexts. This course is required to receive a digital badge for the AI Literacy Education Program (https://ai.sfsu.edu/start-your-ai-journey).