Graduate Arts and Sciences Summer Courses

Center for Society and Ethics

CEED-5600-L11- Special Topics in Ethics and Society
Summer Session 1, May 27, 2025 - June 26, 2025
Lincoln Center

This course will provide students with interdisciplinary perspectives on contemporary issues in ethics and society across the humanities and the social and natural sciences. Class readings and discussions will provide students with the tools to apply ethical principles, theories, and decision-making to issues of social import across diverse contexts and populations.

CRN: 14969

Instructor: TBA
3 credits

Fordham course attributes: CETH, PSIC

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Communications and Media Studies

PMMA-5001-V21- Public Media Theory & Practice
Summer Session 2, July 1, 2025 - August 5, 2025
Online: MW, 06:00PM - 09:00PM

Serving as a core introductory course for the Public Media MA program, this class examines central topics in the study and practice of media in the public interest. Students consider what is the role of media and communication in promoting (or constraining) positive social change, and what unique roles do journalists and strategic communication professionals play throughout this process? What do we mean, exactly, by concepts such as public media, the public interest, social justice, and civic engagement? How do historical and contemporary power dynamics, information technologies, and economic structures shape the types of stories that dominate the public sphere, and how do resistant voices find ways to disrupt those narratives over time? Course readings and multimedia materials are drawn from a wide variety of academic disciplines and professional sectors, while course assignments ask students to grapple with real-world topics, aiming to not only analyze social problems but also identify potential solutions.

CRN: 15052

Instructor: Levinson, Paul
3 credits

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PMMA-5106-L21- Race, Gender, and Digital Media
Summer Session 2, July 1, 2025 - August 5, 2025
Hybrid LC/Online: TR, 06:00PM - 09:00PM

This course examines the theory, history, politics, and aesthetics of digital media. We will utilize an intersectional feminist approach to explore race, gender, and broader questions of identity and difference from early computing to social networking. Topics include diversity in the tech industry, virtual communities, and online activism. Ultimately, the class will discuss the role that digital media plays in promoting—or preventing—civic engagement and social change.

CRN: 15824

Instructor: Kulkarni, Kavita
3 credits

Fordham course attributes: CEED, CENS, PMTC, PSIC, URSG

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PMMA-6216-L11- Communicating Criminal Justice
Summer Session 1, May 27, 2025 - June 26, 2025
Hybrid LC/Online: MW, 06:00PM - 09:00PM

This course helps students prepare for work involving advocacy or journalism by exploring the criminal justice system, with a focus on the role of communication. The course will present an overview of policing, justice, and incarceration and the information streams each part of the criminal justice system creates. Students will leave the course able to find and use the data created by police, courts, prisons, jails, government agencies, and other organizations involved in criminal justice. Students will also explore issues of ethics and equity in the criminal justice system, and will learn to be discerning consumers of criminal justice journalism, research, and data. Open to students in both the strategic communication and multiplatform journalism tracks of the public media M.A. program, as well as to other graduate students with interest in communicating about criminal justice.

CRN: 15885

Instructor: Givens, Ann
3 credits

Fordham course attributes: CENS, PMTC

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Computer Science

CISC-5380-V11- Programming with Python
Summer Session 1, May 27, 2025 - June 26, 2025
Rose Hill: MW, 01:00PM - 04:00PM

This course is an introduction to the Python programming language for students without prior programming experience. Students will learn how to use Python both interactively and through a script. The topics covered include variables, strings, numbers, control statements (conditional statements and loops), lists and sequences, functions, dictionaries, recursive functions, classes, and iterators and generators. Python is a programming language with a relatively simple syntax and a powerful set of libraries. After completion of this course, students will be competent in using Python libraries to process numerical and textual data. Working with Python packages for statistical and numerical data analysis, as well as the natural language processing problems, is explored. Matplotlib, a Python 2D plotting library which produces publication-quality figures in a variety of hard-copy formats, is used throughout the course.

CRN: 16535

Instructor: Chen, Juntao
3 credits

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CISC-5550-V21- Cloud Computing
Summer Session 2, July 1, 2025 - August 5, 2025
Online: Asynchronous

This course provides the needed knowledge to understand the technologies and services that enable cloud computing, discusses different types of cloud computing models and investigates security and legal issues associated with cloud computing. Topics include Cloud infrastructure components and interfaces, essential characteristics of Cloud platforms, common deployment modes, techniques for deploying and scaling cloud resources and security implication of cloud resources.

CRN: 15121

Instructor: TBA
3 credits

Fordham course attributes: CSNS, CSSS, CYAI, CYSM, DATA, EDDS

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CISC-5900-V11- Information Fusion
Summer Session 1, May 27, 2025 - June 26, 2025
Online: MW, 06:00PM - 09:00PM

A study of the structure and function of information fusion. Efficient and effective combination of data or information from a variety of diverse sources, sensors, features, and decisions. Applications and case studies of information fusion and decision making to a plethora of disciplines including science and engineering, cybersecurity and digital networks, medicine and health, social choices and human cognition, business and finance, and management and innovation.

CRN: 15091

Instructor: Hsu, Derbiau
3 credits

Fordham course attributes: CSAI, CSDA, DATI, DCDF, EDDS, PMTM, ZLB3

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CISC-6080-V31- Capstone Proj. in Data Science
Summer Session 3, May 27, 2025 - August 5, 2025
Online: Asynchronous

The goal of this class is to sharpen students’ skills in data science by designing and implementing a capstone project. Through this class, students should gain a deep understanding of state-of-the-art data science technologies and current knowledge. Students are required to finish a large capstone project and are expected to present and write one or more research papers in this class.

CRN: 15098

Instructor: TBA
3 credits

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CISC-6095-L01- Master's Thesis in MSCY I
Summer Session 3, May 27, 2025 - August 5, 2025
Lincoln Center

Exceptional students may choose to write a master's thesis. The thesis topic must be approved by the Department Graduate Committee. The work should adequately demonstrate the student's proficiency in the subject material. A thesis supervisor will be assigned by the department and an oral defense is required.

CRN: 16279

Instructor: TBA
0 credits

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CISC-6170-V31- Special Topics in Data Science
Summer Session 3, May 27, 2025 - August 5, 2025
Online: Asynchronous

This course concentrates on special state-of-the-art topics in the field of data science. The course content will change from semester to semester.

CRN: 15146

Instructor: Zhao, Yijun
3 credits

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CISC-6500-V11- Bioinformatics
Summer Session 1, May 27, 2025 - June 26, 2025
Online: Asynchronous

This course studies the relation of (interaction between) molecular biology and information science and the impact and applications of combinatorics, computing, and informatics on the biomedical sciences and clinical processes. Topics include: DNA sequence and alignment, database searching and data analysis, phylogenetic analysis and evolution, genomic and proteomics, structure and function, gene regulatory networks and metabolic pathways, microarray technology, and gene expression algorithms.

CRN: 15122

Instructor: TBA
3 credits

Fordham course attributes: CSAT, CSDA, DATA

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CISC-6600-L31- Cloud Computing Security
Summer Session 3, May 27, 2025 - August 5, 2025
Hybrid LC/Online

Cloud computing has evolved as a very emerging computing model and is now becoming a backbone of the IT industry and business, opening the opportunity for on-demand, highly elastic, and infinite computing power with scalability and supporting the delivery of mission-critical enterprise applications and services. Security poses significant challenges in cloud computing environments. This course starts with ground-up coverage on the high-level concepts of cloud landscape, architectural principles, techniques, and real-world best practices applied to cloud service providers and consumers. Then, the course will describe the cloud security architecture, security problems, and techniques, and explore the guiding security design principles and industry security standards. Finally, the course delves deep into the secure cloud architectural aspects, including comprehensive data protection, end-to-end identity management and access control, and monitoring and auditing processes. The course will have project works on important problems providing exposure to scientific research in cloud computing security.

CRN: 15100

Instructor: TBA
credits

Fordham course attributes: CSCY, CYAI, CYOP, CYSM, DCCF

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CISC-6630-L31- Wireless Security
Summer Session 3, May 27, 2025 - August 5, 2025
Hybrid LC/Online

The goal of this course is to provide students a theoretical foundation and robust technical details in wireless security. It covers topics in wireless network basics, principles of wireless network attacks, wireless intrusion detection systems, deploying wireless networks, defense for securing wireless networks, malwares in wireless networks, Rogue wireless network detection, cloud-based wireless solutions, and related techniques.

CRN: 15101

Instructor: TBA
credits

Fordham course attributes: CSCY, CSNS, CSSS, CYOP, CYSM

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CISC-6640-L31- Privacy and Security in Big Data
Summer Session 3, May 27, 2025 - August 5, 2025
Hybrid LC/Online: U, 09:00AM - 01:00PM

This course targets the security and privacy issues associated with systems that process and store large amounts of data. The main concern is to process this data in a timely manner without compromising security and privacy of the users. Real world examples will be studied and analyzed to enable students to apply the suitable technological tools and techniques to protect the system and evaluate the suggested solutions. Covered topics include access control mechanisms, privacy protocol and methods, data confidentiality and integrity, security challenges and attacks on big data systems.

CRN: 16534

Instructor: Bhuiyan, Zakirul Alam
3 credits

Fordham course attributes: CSAT, CSCY, CYAI, CYSM, DATA

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Economics

ECON-5006-V11- Programming Economics and Finance
Summer Session 1, May 27, 2025 - June 26, 2025
Online: MW, 06:00PM - 09:00PM

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 LATEX program.

CRN: 14970

Instructor: Rengifo Minaya, Erick
3 credits

Fordham course attributes: EDFI

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ECON-5020-R21- African Economic Development
Summer Session 2, July 1, 2025 - August 5, 2025
Rose Hill: TR, 06:00PM - 09:00PM

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 economics in industrialized and developing countries as well as future prospects.

CRN: 15049

Instructor: Themeli, Booi
3 credits

Fordham course attributes: HULI

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ECON-5040-R11- Strategic Financial Management
Summer Session 1, May 27, 2025 - June 26, 2025
Rose Hill: TR, 06:00PM - 09:00PM

This course provides students with an introduction to the basic questions facing an investor evaluating firm policy. It covers debt/equity choice, dividend policy, and principle-agent problems within the firm as well as the value of the firm under different financial and managerial structures. Current research is surveyed to determine how investors interpret various financial arrangements such as dividend policy, taxes, and stock offerings. Specific attention will be paid to information and incentives of each party in a financial contract in the context of structuring the firm, running the firm efficiently, and if all else fails, bankruptcy.

CRN: 14971

Instructor: Rengifo Minaya, Erick
3 credits

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ECON-5415-V11- Gender & Economic Development
Summer Session 1, May 27, 2025 - June 26, 2025
Online: MW, 06:00PM - 09:00PM

In this course, students analyze the social nature of gender and economic development from a cross-cultural perspective. Topics include household labor, occupational segregation and earnings, inequality in market work, poverty, family structure, public policy, and gender equity. The course draws on material from economics and other social sciences to analyze the social nature of gender and economic development in a cross-cultural perspective. Topics include women's household labor; occupational segregation and earnings inequality in market work; the intersections of gender, class, race, and ethnicity; women and poverty; family structure; public policy and gender equity.

CRN: 14975

Instructor: Combs, Mary Beth
3 credits

Fordham course attributes: CEED, CENS, EDAM, HULI, PSIC

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ECON-5540-R21- Emerging Markets
Summer Session 2, July 1, 2025 - August 5, 2025
Rose Hill: MW, 06:00PM - 09:00PM

This course is intended primarily for IPED students interested in analyzing the dynamics of emerging financial markets in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. It compliments POGA 6991- Political Risk Analysis. Students must prepare a study of one country's basic macroeconomic performance, foreign exchange market, and stock market. The use of a computer and the internet are incorporated into the course to gather data and analyze it statistically. Intended primarily for IPED students, this course explores the dynamics of emerging financial markets in Africa, Asia, Eastern Europe, and Latin America. Complementing and expanding upon the skills learned in POGA 6991 Political Risk Analysis, students learn how to prepare a country study regarding their country's leading macroeconomic indicators, the stability of its foreign exchange market, and the likely returns and risks associated with its stock market. Real-time data is obtained from the university's Bloomberg Terminal and the internet. Additional data is available from standard written and CD-ROM statistical sources. Students are taught how to analyze this data using standard statistical software to forecast trends as well as to estimate returns, volatility, and cross-correlations. An optimal portfolio of equity investments in emerging markets is estimated. Students also analyze the dynamics of emerging financial markets in Africa, Asia, Eastern Europe, and Latin America.

CRN: 15050

Instructor: Schwalbenberg, Henry
3 credits

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ECON-5771-R11- Project Assessment
Summer Session 1, May 27, 2025 - June 26, 2025
Rose Hill: TR, 09:00AM - 12:00PM

Uses the logical framework analysis frequently mandated by USAID to design a results based system to monitor and evaluate small community development projects.

CRN: 14972

Instructor: Schwalbenberg, Henry
3 credits

Fordham course attributes: HUCB

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History

HIST-5205-V31- The Fall of the Roman Empire
Summer Session 3, May 27, 2025 - August 5, 2025
Online: Asynchronous

This graduate seminar introduces students to the historiographical paradigm of the "decline and fall" of the Roman Empire and examines modern responses to it.

CRN: 15789

Instructor: Bruce, Scott
4 credits

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HIST-5424-V12- Women in the History of Science and Technology
Summer Session 1, May 27, 2025 - June 26, 2025
Online: TR, 06:00PM - 09:00PM

Natural knowledge and the manipulation of nature have often been gendered, but how, why, and by whom? This seminar will explore the multitude of ways that women have shaped and been shaped by these gendered visions of nature and the tools for controlling it. What forms of natural knowledge were deemed appropriate for women? Why were women understood to be particularly adept at specific technologies or handicrafts? How were spaces for scientific practice or technological production rendered hospitable or, more often, inhospitable for women? In what ways have systems of scientific authority limited or encouraged the participation of female researchers? How have science and technology been used to act on women's bodies? Are there specifically "womanly" ways of knowing? These and other questions will be explored through cases across a wide range of periods, disciplines, and geographies, allowing us not only to question the shifting place of women within the worlds of science and technology but also to question our assumptions about the place of science and technology within different societies.

CRN: 16544

Instructor: Shen, Grace
4 credits

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Latin

LATN-5090-V11- Latin for Reading
Summer Session 1, May 27, 2025 - June 26, 2025
Online: MW, 01:00PM - 04:00PM

A course designed for graduate students seeking a reading knowledge of Latin in their discipline. Some prior study of Latin is desirable but not necessary.

CRN: 15080

Instructor: Mcgowan, Matthew
0 credits

Fordham course attributes: Z413

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LATN-5093-V21- Ecclesiastical Latin
Summer Session 2, July 1, 2025 - August 5, 2025
Online: MW, 01:00PM - 04:00PM

This course is a study of the grammatical structure, form, and vocabulary of Church Latin, focusing on the Bible, the Church fathers, and medieval thinkers.

CRN: 15081

Instructor: Mcgowan, Matthew
3 credits

Fordham course attributes: MTAM, MVSG

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Medieval Studies

MVST-5350-L11- Holy Grails: Medieval, Modern, and Digital
Summer Session 1, May 27, 2025 - June 26, 2025
Lincoln Center: TR, 09:30AM - 12:30PM

This seminar explores the medieval Grail legend via a disciplinary triangulation of literary criticism, medievalism, and data science. No knowledge of Old French or programming required. Participants will learn several tools of data science to ask new questions of a vast medieval corpus, which has resonated throughout the centuries. Topics will include: metalepsis and narrative structure; manuscript illuminations; text as data; manuscript image classification; and medievalist rewritings.

CRN: 16500

Instructor: Reilly, Brian
4 credits

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Political Science

POSC-6991-R11- Political Risk Analysis
Summer Session 1, May 27, 2025 - June 26, 2025
Rose Hill: MW, 06:00PM - 09:00PM

This course is primarily a research/writing course that culminates in an original paper where you will be required to analyze the political risks associated with a country of your choosing. While there will be only a minimal number of lectures, the instructor will serve as your individual mentor as you develop and present your paper. As part of the process of writing this paper, you will study methods used to assess and manage the political risks associatedwith foreign investment and international business; learn how to assess the domestic political climate of a country by examining factors such as the levelsof political violence, the stability of the government, and the existence of political democracy, and make an overall assessment of a country's economic climate by evaluating key macroeconomic indicators. You will also learn the importance of studying foreign relations of a country in order to evaluate the likelihood of any conflict it might have with its neighbors.

CRN: 14973

Instructor: Porter, Geoffrey
3 credits

Fordham course attributes:

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PSYC-6050-R21- Behavioral Medicine
Summer Session 2, July 1, 2025 - August 5, 2025
Rose Hill: TR, 09:00AM - 12:00PM

Teaches students the clinical and research skills required in a medical setting. The overarching goal is for students to gain competency working with patients presenting with a range of medical conditions (as primary or secondary diagnosis).

CRN: 16506

Instructor: Annunziato, Rachel
3 credits

Fordham course attributes: CLRM, CPCE, CPIE

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PSYC-6066-R21- History and Systems
Summer Session 2, July 1, 2025 - August 5, 2025
Rose Hill: MW, 01:00PM - 04:00PM

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.

CRN: 16508

Instructor: Mattson, Mark
3 credits

Fordham course attributes: CEED, CENS, CLMB, PSIC

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PSYC-6370-R11- Cognition and Affect
Summer Session 1, May 27, 2025 - June 26, 2025
Rose Hill: MW, 01:00PM - 04:00PM

A development and comparative examination of significant cognitive theories and research Structuralist, contextualist, information processing, and connectionist perspectives as well as research from infant to elderly cognition are covered.

CRN: 16509

Instructor: Roy, Amy
3 credits

Fordham course attributes: CLMB

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PSYC-7990-R11- The Teaching of Psychology
Summer Session 1, May 27, 2025 - June 26, 2025
Rose Hill: TR, 09:00AM - 12:00PM

Theory and practice of college teaching will be reviewed. Topics will include lecturing, demonstrations, assessment methods, out of class writing assignments, syllabus preparation, local requirements and values.

CRN: 14974

Instructor: Feuerstahler, Leah
3 credits

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