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Computer Science


Discrete Structures
CISC5400 L21

Session II, July 2-August 6
Lincoln Center: TTh, 6-9 p.m.
3 credits, Strzemecki, CRN 10065

This course covers basic materials in discrete structures and algorithms which are used in computing science, information technology, and telecommunications. Topics include sets, permutation/combinations, functions/relations/graphs, sum/limit/partition, logic and induction, recursion/recurrence relations, system of equations and matrices, graphs/digraphs/networks, searching and sorting algorithms, database structure, and data analysis. Practical examples of applications will be shown and programming will be used to reinforce understanding of the concepts. Lab fee.


Classical Languages and Civilization

Latin for Reading
LATN5090 L11

Session I, May 28-June 27
Lincoln Center: MW, 6-9 p.m.
0 credits, Sogna, CRN 10072

This course is designed to offer graduate students a reading knowledge of Latin. No prior instruction in Latin is necessary. Fulfills requirement in Fordham’s core curriculum.

 

Ecclesiastical Latin
LATN5093 R21

Session II, July 2-August 6
Rose Hill: MW, 6-9 p.m.
3 credits, Clark, CRN 10073

Study of the grammatical structure, form, and vocabulary of Christian Latin, focusing on the Bible, the Church Fathers, and medieval authors.

 

Public Communications

World Cinema
COMM6425 R21

Session II, July 2-August 6
Rose Hill: TTh, 6-9 p.m.
3 credits, Andersen, CRN 10084

Covers the emergence of film as a global art form, economic force, and cultural phenomenon, in a variety of national and international settings. Covers the potential for film, and the discourse and theory of cinema, to effectively encourage cultural awareness, political dialogue, and social commentary.

 

Politics and New Media
COMM6630 R21

Session II, July 2-August 6
Rose Hill: MW, 6-9 p.m.
3 credits, Levinson, CRN 10085

An examination of the impacts that new media are having on the political process in America and world-wide. Key characteristics of new media include the empowerment of readers and viewers as writers and producers, and the viral marketing of political candidates and ideas. Students not only look at these media and their impact, but work on the web with blogs, videos and audio files.

 

Economics

Programming: Economics and Finance
ECON5006 R11

Session I, May 28-June 27
Rose Hill: MW, 6-9 p.m.
3 credits, Rengifo, CRN 10093

This course introduces the student to various computer programs and their applications in economics and in finance. The course begins with a general review of programming skills using MATLAB. It then presents other statistical and econometric packages such as SAS and STATA. The course concludes with a review of the LATEK program.

 

Strategic Financial Management
ECON5040 R11

Session I, May 28-June 27
Rose Hill: TTh, 6-9 p.m.
3 credits, Rengifo, CRN 10094

The aim of this course is to present the tools and techniques that willallow the students to think strategically when facing financial problems inside and outside the firm. The course starts analyzing the basic function of the treasurer and controller of the firm and will cover topics related to interest rates, inflation, devaluation, and financial accounting.

 

Gender and Economic Development
ECON5415 R11

Session I, May 28-June 27
Rose Hill: MW, 6-9 p.m.
3 credits, Combs, CRN 10095

The course draws on material from economics and other social sciences to analyze the social and economic nature of gender and economic development in a cross-cultural perspective. The class will be run as a discussion-based seminar.

 

Migration, Microfinance and Poverty
ECON5808 R11

Session I, May 28-June 27
Rose Hill: MW, 6-9 p.m.
3 credits, McLeod, CRN 10096

Migration, access to credit (microfinance), and remittances can create employment and education opportunities for poor families, particularly women. Interdisciplinary case studies from Mexico, the DR, the Bronx, Amsterdam, Nigeria, China, Bangladesh, and India show how race, class, and gender affect employment outcomes.

 

African Economic Development
ECON5020 R21

Session II, July 2-August 6
Rose Hill: MW, 6-9 p.m.
3 credits, Themeli, CRN 10160

The key objective of this course is to develop an understanding of the economic development problems of Africa, the trade patterns, and financial relationships of Africa to the rest of the world. With examples, application, and country case studies, the course covers major development challenges and the possible solutions, the growing influence of African economies in industrialized and developing countries, as well as future prospects.

 

Emerging Markets
ECON5540 R21

Session II, July 2-August 6
Rose Hill: TTh, 6-9 p.m.
3 credits, Schwalbenberg, CRN 10161

Analyzes emerging financial marketsin Africa, Asia, and Latin America. Students must prepare a study regarding one country's macroeconomic performance, foreign exchange market, and stock market. Complements POSC 6911, Political Risk Analysis.

 

English

Trans-Atlantic Modern Women
ENGL5717 L11

Session I, May 28-June 27
Lincoln Center: TTh, 1-4 p.m.
3 credits, Fernald, CRN 10169

This class looks at gender and modernism on both sides of the Atlantic. We will read a generous selection of women modernists, canonical and noncanonical, representing high modernism and "bad modernism" (to use Mao and Walkowitz's term), fiction, film, and poetry from the first half of the 20th century. Our transatlantic focus offers a special opportunity to examine multicultural and cosmopolitan modernisms: many women writers in this period were travelers and immigrants. We will also analyze the often-complex and often-fraught relationships among feminist criticism, feminist theory, and theories of modernism both in the early 20th century and today. Authors include: Gertrude Stein, Zora Neale Hurston, Elizabeth Bishop, Katherine Mansfield, Jean Rhys, and Virginia Woolf.

 

Introduction to Critical Theory
ENGL5002 R21

Session II, July 2-August 6
Rose Hill: TTh, 1-4 p.m.
3 credits, Walsh, CRN 10190

A broad sampling of recent critical approaches (from structuralism to queer theory), ground in selected "classic" readings from Plato to New Criticism.

 

Sex and the Enlightenment
ENGL6550 R21

Session II, July 2-August 6
Rose Hill: MW, 6-9 p.m.
3 credits, Kim, J., CRN 10191

Drawing on major accounts of sexuality and the body in the eighteenth century, this course will examine how authors ranging from Rochester to Jane Austen responded to the reconfigurations of sex, gender, and sexuality entailed by the emerging heteropatriarchal order. Possible primary texts include Rochester's Sodom, or the
Quintessence of Debauchery, Eliza Haywood's Love in Excess and Anti-Pamela, Samuel Richardson's Pamela, Fielding's Shamela and Joseph Andrews, Cleland's Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure, David Garrick's Miss in Her Teens and The Male Coquette, Sterne's A Sentimental Journey, Goldsmith's The Vicar of Wakefield, Elizabeth Inchbald's A Simple Story, and Austen's Pride and Prejudice. Also on the syllabus will be a selection of historical, critical, and theoretical texts by scholars such as Henry Abelove, Timothy Hitchcock, Thomas Laqueur, Michael McKeon, Eve Sedgwick, Lawrence Stone, Randolph Trumbach, and others.

 

History

Modern Ireland, 1690-1923
HIST5405 R11

Session I, May 28-June 27
Rose Hill: TTh, 6-9 p.m.
4 credits, Curtin, CRN 10204

 

Technology and Empire
HIST5566 R21

Session II, July 2-August 6
Rose Hill: MW, 6-9 p.m.
4 credits, Siddiqi, CRN 10219

This course will explore the crucial relationship between science and imperialism, with a particular focus on European imperial expansion from the eighteenth to the twentieth centuries. Students will use a wide variety of primary and secondary texts to raise and reframe fundamental questions about the role of science and technology as "tools for empire".

 

International Political Economy and Development

IPED Internship
IPED8085 R21

Session II, July 2-August 6
Rose Hill: TBA, 6-9p.m.
0.5 credits, Schwalbenberg, CRN 10164

The Internship in International PoliticalEconomy and Development serves to enrich the program by encouraging students to experience first-hand careers in the international and development fields. The Internship counts as a 0.5 credit elective course in the IPED program.

 

IPED Intern Fellowship
IPED8090 R21

Session II, July 2-August 6
Rose Hill: TBA, 6-9 p.m.
0 credits, Schwalbenberg, CRN 10165

Working closely with our alumni, the IPED program sponsors an Intern Fellowship Program. Intern fellowships are only available on a competitive basis and can only be done once. If selected for an IPED Intern Fellowship, you will register for IPED 8090, IPED Intern Fellow in place of IPED 8050, IPED Internship.

 

Modern Languages and Literatures

French for Reading
FREN5090 L21

Session II, July 2-August 6
Lincoln Center: TTh, 6-9 p.m.
0 credits, Brandon, closed

A course designed for graduate students who are confronted with French in their research field. This course will provide grammar review and an introduction to translation in various fields.

 

Spanish for Reading
SPAN5090 R11

Session I, May 28-June 27
Rose Hill: TTh, 6-9 p.m.
0 credits, Sagardia, CRN 10250

Accelerated course in Spanish grammar and reading techniques to prepare students to decipher essays and narrative prose in Spanish in fields appropriate to a variety of graduate programs.

 

Medieval Studies

Medieval Scholasticism
MVST6700 R11

Session I, May 28-June 27
Rose Hill: TTh, 4-7 p.m.
4 credits, Harkins, CRN 10211

This interdisciplinary graduate course will provide an introduction to the history, theology, and philosophy of the Scholastic movement in the High Middle Ages. Topics to be considered include: theeconomic, social, political, religious, and educational transitions that together constitute the "renaissance of the twelfth century"; the rise of open urban schools and the development of the university; and characteristic modes of thought and discourse in scholastic theology and philosophy. Thinkers to be examined include Anselm of Canterbury, Hugh and Richard of St. Victor, Peter Abelard, the School of Laon, Peter Lomard, Albert the Great, Thomas Aquinas, Bonaventure, John Duns Scotus, and William of Ockham.

 

Political Science

Election and Campaign Management Internship
POSC5244 L11

Session I, May 28-June 27
Lincoln Center: TTh, 6-9 p.m.
3 credits, Panagopoulos, CRN 10099

Internship requirement for the graduate program in Elections and Campaign Management. Permission of the instructor is required.

 

Special Topics in Elections and Campaign Management
POSC5299 R11

Session I, May 28-June 27
Rose Hill: MW, 6-9 p.m.
3 credits, Fleisher, CRN 10102

This course is designed primarily for students in the Elections and Campaigns Management M.A. Program. The course will discuss and analyze selected problems in elections and campaign management, building upon previous course work in the program, but tailored to the student's particular interests and needs. Each student will work on an individually-guided research project, working closely with the faculty member teaching the course. 

Special Topics in Elections and Campaign Management
POSC5299 R21

Session II, July 2-August 6
Rose Hill: TTh, 6-9 p.m.
3 credits, Panagopoulos, CRN 10109

This course is designed primarily for students in the Elections and Campaigns Management M.A. Program. The course will discuss and analyze selected problems in elections and campaign management, building upon previous course work in the program, but tailored to the student's particular interests and needs. Each student will work on an individually-guided research project, working closely with the faculty member teaching the course. 

Election and Campaign Management Internship
POSC5244 R21

Session II, July 2-August 6
Rose Hill: MW, 6-9 p.m.
3 credits, Cohen, CRN 10099

Internship requirement for the graduate program in Elections and Campaign Management. Permission of the instructor is required.



International Business and Governments
POSC 6250 R11

Session I, May 28-June 27 
Rose Hill: TTh, 6-9 p.m.
3 credits, Holmes, CRN 10305

Overview of the major principles, theories, and issues regarding the role of contemporary international business within an interdependent world political economy. Course topics include corporate strategy, identity, governmental policies, diplomacy, foreign policy, ethics, media, entrepreneurship, and trade. Specific case-study materials will be used to supplement academic literature.

 

Political Risk Analysis
POSC6991 R21

Session II, July 2-August 6
Rose Hill: MW, 6-9 p.m.
3 credits, Entelis, CRN 10110

This course will examine political risk analysis in a global context. Political risk analysis is defined as the systematic means of assessing and managing the political risks of foreign investment or international business.

 

Psychology

Issues in Social Psychology
PSYC5710 R11

Session I, May 28-June 27
Rose Hill: TTh, 10 a.m.-1 p.m.
3 credits, Schiaffino, CRN 10116

The person in society; interdisciplinary approaches; personality and culture; subculture, class and community. Development and the self-cognitive and motivational elements in the acquisition of language, attitudes, and values. Group membership, role behavior, and group dynamics. 
 

History and Systems of Psychology
PSYC6066 L21

Session II, July 2-August 6
Lincoln Center: MW, 3-6 p.m.
3 credits, Mattson, CRN 10119

This course surveys the history of the major systems of psychology from pre-Socratic philosophers to contemporary cognitive science and neuroscience. Key men and women who contributed to the development of theories about and methods used to study personality, emotion, intelligence, cognition, and psychobiology are discussed within their historical, religious, cultural, and political contexts.

 

The Teaching of Psychology
PSYC7990 R21

Session II, July 2-August 6
Rose Hill: MW, 9 a.m.-Noon
3 credits, MacDonall, closed

The fundamentals of teaching a college course are reviewed, including preparing syllabi, grading, lecturing, and preparing teaching and research statements for job applications, with an emphasis on practical applications.

 

Theology

Introduction to Biblical Greek
THEO5080 L11

Session I, May 20-June 27
Lincoln Center: MTWTh, 1-4 p.m.
4 credits, Ballard, CRN 10142 

This course is an intensive introduction to the grammar and syntax of New Testament Greek. Sufficient attention will be devoted to vocabulary to enable a rewarding experience in reading and exegesis.

 

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