Hofstra University will offer a course in social media this...

Hofstra University will offer a course in social media this fall. This social media class was at Briarcliffe College in Bethpage. (July 15, 2011) Credit: Newsday / Alejandra Villa

As a business person, would you spend $350 to gain a better understanding of social media? Hofstra University and the marketing-public relations firm Harrison Leifer DiMarco of Rockville Centre hope your answer is yes.

Hofstra is offering, and two HLD staffers will be teaching, a course this fall on digital and social media marketing, starting Oct. 6 and continuing on Thursdays for seven weeks, from 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.

You'll learn about Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter and YouTube, and at least be able to converse with your teenager about them.

Bradley Rubin, marketing director at CompuSmart Solutions, software consultants in Hauppauge, has already signed up for the course. He hopes to learn how to use social media to drive traffic to the company's site. Rubin acknowledges many teens are experts on social media.

"We're thinking of hiring a few of those," he joked.

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