Urban Studies Summer Courses

BISC-1002-R11 - Ecology: A Human Approach
Summer Session I, May 28 - June 27, 2024
Rose Hill: TWTh, 09:00AM - 12:00PM

A course designed for non-majors. Ecological concepts and how they relate to critical contemporary issues: air and water pollution, radiation, energy, world hunger. Includes experiments, demonstrations and field trips. Lab fee.

CRN: 14836

Instructor: Pool, Justin
3 credits

Fordham course attributes: AMST, APPI, ASHS, BESN, BIOE, ENST, ESLS, ESNS, INST, ISIN, LSCI, PJEN, PJST, SOIN, URST, ZLB3

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CISC-2500-V21 - Information and Data Management
Summer Session II, July 2 - August 6, 2024
Online: MTWTh, 06:00PM - 09:00PM

This course will introduce the fundamentals of information storage, access and retrieval using a variety of structures, formats, and systems in computing, internet and information technologies. Projects and case studies will be drawn from the sciences, social sciences, arts and humanities and professional studies in medicine and health, business and commerce, justice and law, and education. Students will have hands-on experience in the acquisition and management of information from a diverse on-line and remote database. (e.g. Gene Bank, digital archives).

CRN: 15093

Instructor: TBA
4 credits

Fordham course attributes: CYSC, INSC, NEUR, NMDD, URST

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COMC-4360-L11 - Communication Ethics and the Public Sphere
Summer Session I, May 28 - June 27, 2024
Lincoln Center, Hybrid: MTWTh, 09:00AM - 12:00PM

(Formerly COMM 4004): This course deals with the policy decisions and ethical issues facing society in the telecommunications age. Of special concern are the ethical issues raised by the melding together of heretofore discrete media into vertically integrated, profit oriented, corporations.

CRN: 14883

Instructor: Kamin, Diana
4 credits

Fordham course attributes: AMST, APPI, ASAM, CCMS, CELP, CMST, EP4, HCWL, HUST, JETH, JOUR, PJMJ, PJST, URST, VAL

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ECON-2140-R11 - Statistics I
Summer Session I, May 28 - June 27, 2024
Rose Hill: MTWTh, 06:00PM - 09:00PM

This course introduces students to descriptive statistics, probability theory, discrete and continuous probability distributions, sampling methods, sampling distributions, estimation, and hypothesis testing.

CRN: 14847

Instructor: Themeli, Booi
4 credits

Fordham course attributes: BUMI, IPE, URST

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ECON-2140-V11 - Statistics I
Summer Session I, May 28 - June 27, 2024
Online: MTWTh, 09:00AM - 12:00PM

This course introduces students to descriptive statistics, probability theory, discrete and continuous probability distributions, sampling methods, sampling distributions, estimation, and hypothesis testing.

CRN: 14872

Instructor: Lahaye, Jerome 
4 credits

Fordham course attributes: BUMI, IPE, URST

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ECON-2140-V21 - Statistics I
Summer Session II, July 2 - August 6, 2024
Online: MTWTh, 09:00AM - 12:00PM

This course introduces students to descriptive statistics, probability theory, discrete and continuous probability distributions, sampling methods, sampling distributions, estimation, and hypothesis testing.

CRN: 15009

Instructor: Castope, Cesar
4 credits

Fordham course attributes: BUMI, IPE, URST

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ECON-3971-V31 - Urban Economics
Summer Session III, May 28 - August 6, 2024
Online, Asynchronous

Urban Economics is the study of location choices by firms and households. The technological changes and economic factors driving the process of urbanization, and the shift from a "downtown-centered" city to the suburbanized metropolises prevalent in the U.S. today are the central focus of the course. Throughout the course, New York City's history and current situation are used as examples of the economic forces operating in cities. Students will participate in a group project to analyze a major urban problem such as housing affordability, poverty, crime, or education.

CRN: 15041

Instructor: Sun, Meiping
4 credits

Fordham course attributes: AMST, APPI, ASHS, ASSC, LALS, LASS, URST

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ECON-4025-V11 - Bronx Urban Economic Development
Summer Session I, May 28 - June 27, 2024
Online: MTWTh, 01:00PM - 04:00PM

In this course, students will use economics, urban studies, and social service policy to examine economic, political, and social issues that impact the local Bronx community. Topics covered will include budgetary policy, education policy, community development/investment, and university/neighborhood relations, among others.

CRN: 14874

Instructor: Combs, Mary Beth
4 credits

Fordham course attributes: AFAM, ICC, PJEC, PJST, URST

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HIST-3950-V11 - Latino History
Summer Session I, May 28 - June 27, 2024
Online: MTWTh, 09:00AM - 12:00PM

This course explores the development of the Latina/o population in the U.S. by focusing on the questions of migration, race, ethnicity, labor, family, sexuality, and citizenship. Specific topics include: United States colonial expansion and its effects on the population of Latin America; Mexican-Americans, and the making of the West; colonialism and the Puerto Rican Diaspora; Caribbean revolutions and the Cuban-American community; and globalization and recent Latina/o migrations (Dominicans, Colombians).

CRN: 15786

Instructor: Acosta, Salvador
4 credits

Fordham course attributes: ACUP, ADVD, AHC, AMST, APPI, ASHS, COLI, HIAH, HIUL, INST, ISIN, ISLA, LALS, LAUH, PJRC, PJST, PLUR, URST

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NSCI-1040-V11 - People and the Living Environment
Summer Session I, May 28 - June 27, 2024
Online: TWTh, 09:00AM - 12:00PM

Introduces the non-science major to the place of humans in global biological systems. Topics include principles of population and community ecology, learning and behavior, evolution and sustainability. Laboratory sessions will complement the lecture topics.

CRN: 15790

Instructor: Mazhar, Shah Faisal
3 credits

Fordham course attributes: ENST, ESLS, ESNS, INST, ISIN, LSCI, PJEN, PJST, SOIN, URST

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PJST-3200-V21 - Environmental Justice
Summer Session II, July 2 - August 6, 2024
Online: TTh, 01:00PM - 04:00PM

This course focuses on the environmental justice movement in the United States and internationally. Environmental justice is defined as the equitable distribution of environmental burdens and benefits among racial and socioeconomic groups and among developed and developing countries. Issues such as pollution, climate change, biodiversity loss, industrial agriculture, food security, urban sprawl, and public health are treated.

CRN: 15837

Instructor: Huda, Sophia
4 credits

Fordham course attributes: AMST, APPI, ASHS, ASSC, BESN, BIOE, ENMI, ENST, EPLE, ESEJ, ESEL, ESPL, INST, IPE, PJEN, POAP, SOCI, URST

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POSC-3915-L11 - International Political Economy
Summer Session I, May 28 - June 27, 2024
Lincoln Center: MTWTh, 09:00AM - 12:00PM

This course introduces various theoretical frameworks explaining the international political economy and examine topics including trade, monetary policy, exchange rates, finance, multinational corporations, international institutions, and economic development. There is a particular focus on the distribution of benefits within an increasingly globalized world, and the ways in which interest groups work to advance their favored economic policies within this system.

CRN: 14830

Instructor: Aleman, Jose
4 credits

Fordham course attributes: AMST, APPI, ASHS, ASSC, INST, IPE, ISIE, ISIN, PJEC, PJST, POIP, URST

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PSYC-2600-V11 - Social Psychology
Summer Session I, May 28 - June 27, 2024
Online: MTWTh, 01:00PM - 04:00PM

An examination of how others shape an individual's behavior. A review of selected topics of interpersonal behavior, including antisocial and prosocial behavior, prejudice, attraction, social influence, attitudes and persuasion, research methods. (Every semester)

CRN: 15791

Instructor: Versey, Henrietta
4 credits

Fordham course attributes: PYCP, SSCI, URST

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PSYC-3340-L11 - Urban Psychology
Summer Session I, May 28 - June 27, 2024
Lincoln Center: TWTh, 01:00PM - 05:00PM

How living in a large city can affect an individual's behavior and personality. Investigations into the "urban personality," stress, family, friends and strangers, crowding, the built environment, adaptation. Includes field research.

CRN: 15794

Instructor: Takooshian, Harold
4 credits

Fordham course attributes: ENST, ESEL, PYAC, URST

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SOCI-2925-V21 - Media, Crime, Sex, and Violence
Summer Session II, July 2 - August 6, 2024
Online: MTWTh, 06:00PM - 09:00PM

Turn on the television set, pick up the local newspaper, go on the Internet or watch a movie. Wherever you turn, you will find the media saturated with stories about corrupt cops and honest cops, drug dealers and drug users, murderers and victims, organized crime and serial killers, crusading district attorneys and defense attorneys, corrupt lawyers and hanging judges, violent prisoners and convicted innocents. How accurate are these representations? What are the ideological messages and cultural values these stories communicate? In this course, you will learn how to demystify media representations in order to understand how and why they are produced, and who is responsible for their production.

CRN: 15013

Instructor: Wormser, Richard
4 credits

Fordham course attributes: AMST, APPI, ASAM, ASHS, ASSC, PJMJ, PJST, URST, WGSS

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SOCI-2960-L11 - Popular Culture
Summer Session I, May 28 - June 27, 2024
Lincoln Center, Hybrid: MW, 06:00PM - 09:00PM

This course will investigate the nature of contemporary popular culture. How do people spend their "spare time"? Does this vary with social class? Is sport the new religion? And how does this differ from that of earlier periods and simpler societies? (Every year)

CRN: 14806

Instructor: McGee, Michelle
4 credits

Fordham course attributes: ACUP, AMST, APPI, ASAM, ASHS, ASSC, URST