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Marietta College professor leads workshop on using films in the classroom at Fall Educators Conference

by Tom Perry

Marietta, Ohio (10/19/2023) — Marietta College Professor Grace Johnson facilitated a workshop, "Lights! Camera! - Using Film to Create Student Engagement in the Classroom," at the inaugural Fall Educators Conference organized by the International Society of Marketing and the Midwest Business Administration Association-International.

The three-day conference took place in Nashville, Tennessee, in mid-September. The participants in the 75-minute workshop explored why film can be a valuable teaching tool, viewed example assignments created by Johnson, were mentored by Johnson through the process of creating an assignment (participants chose to work with the film The Devil Wears Prada), and then worked in small groups to create their own assignments for use in their Fall 2023 or Spring 2024 classes.

Johnson has been using film as a teaching tool for a few years with her students in Business Ethics. Two of her most effective assignments focus on ethical dilemmas in the films Dark Waters and The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley.

"The visual aspect of film brings alive the ethics topics in a way reading about them cannot," Johnson said.

Her association with film occurs not only in the classroom. Johnson is on sabbatical this semester, writing a textbook about using film to teach business ethics. Lights! Camera! Ethics! - 45 Films for Business Ethics will be used in her Business Ethics course in Spring 2024.

Located in Marietta, Ohio, at the confluence of the Muskingum and Ohio rivers, Marietta College is a four-year liberal arts college. Tracing its roots to the Muskingum Academy, which was founded in 1797, the College was officially chartered in 1835. Today Marietta College serves a body of 1,200 full-time students. The College offers more than 50 majors and is consistently ranked as one of the top regional comprehensive colleges by U.S. News & World Report and The Princeton Review. Marietta was selected seventh in the nation according to the Brookings Institution's rankings of colleges by their highest value added, regardless of major.

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